On 29 Sep 2010, at 18:31, Luis Lavena wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sep 29, 3:19 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> I recently noticed that `gem` had a `lock` command. I played around >>>> with it and found it mostly useless. First, one has to provide it the >>>> name and version of an installed gem. It would be much more useful if >>>> it could take a gemspec file instead. Also, it does not appear to >>>> utilize remote gem source(s) to resolve best dependencies, but simply >>>> uses the versions of gems installed locally. It would be much more >>>> useful if it recognized the --remote option and acted accordingly. >>>> Also, it could use an option to include/not-include development >>>> dependencies. >>> >>> I actually don't remember the last time I used that command and >>> discarded by ~> in my gem dependencies >>> >>> Do we have a 1.4.x Roadmap? If not, this for sure can be removed then. >> >> Why remove it? Why not just fix it? > > The logic for dependency resolution (ala: bundler AOT) is not easy > stuff which could grow our codebase and maintenance requirements. > > IMHO with Bundler and Isolate out there, posible usefulness of lock > has disappeared. > > But, if you want it fixed, you can fork it and send the pull request, > I would love to review it and if it works, happy to merge it.
I would be wary to merge in any update to this feature that doesn't fix the issues of the style I just highlighted. In fact, it should pass all of the dependency collision spec examples that you might find in the bundler resolver tests. If it doesn't, it's basically broken. As we don't have users using this feature, and it's broken, I would suggest it should be removed by the next major release unless someone has fixed it. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
