On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Evan Phoenix wrote: > See below. > > -- > Evan Phoenix // e...@fallingsnow.net > > > On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote: > >> Because of this validation: >> >> https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/blob/master/lib/rubygems/specification.rb#L2189-2192 >> >> today it's not possible to generate a gemspec with an empty >> `require_paths`. I would like to build shell a gem that contain no >> code, it merely depends on other gems. > Could you provide some info about your use case? Does this new gem exist only > to specify dependencies and therefore act as a meta-gem of sorts?
It may not be Aarons use case, but I've done this before a handful of times for ease of distribution, just packing a very simple binfile into a gem. Example: http://pastie.textmate.org/private/yb1u0pr4w9ywnoztlr39a Yes, this could be written in another language. Yes, it could be packed into a file in lib, and other things. It could be distributed some way other than a gem. It's just convenient to be able to use a cross-platform package manager for a simple purpose such as this, though. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers