On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 05:50:13PM -0700, Evan Phoenix wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it's the rails gem.  The rails gem is just a meta-gem.  It doesn't
contain any code, just depends on the rest of the gems.

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/
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