On 11/6/07, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/7/07, Austin Ziegler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/6/07, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Been updating some gems locally (crafted by myself) and found a > > > curious situation: > > > Eric told me on #ruby-lang that Hoe include itself as dependency since > > > it's needed to perform gem 'check' operations. > > This and the other issues would be solved if someone added a > > "development dependencies" list (or a "gem dependencies", as in > > dependencies for working with the gem itself, not with the package > > contained within the gem... sort of). > In "The Real World"(tm) users read the documentation from the source > package to fulfill the required dependencies to compile build and pack > the application/library.
Yeah. It'd just be nice if we could say: gem install --for-development foobar ;) Mostly, the problem is the same as everything else... someone needs to take the time to make a patch ;) -austin -- Austin Ziegler * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.halostatue.ca/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.halostatue.ca/feed/ * [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
