On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Evan Phoenix <e...@phx.io> wrote:
> I feel like the crux of the request, removing the dependency name check on 
> push, has gotten lost in the discussion.
>

You are right, I completely missed that point, my bad.

> Given that it currently doesn't provide a true safeguard that the gem's deps 
> are actually satisfied by gems currently on rubygems.org, I think we should 
> go ahead and simply remove the check all together.
>

Couldn't find where that check is applied but if that means solving
the issue for JRuby and not breaking anything else then go ahead :-)

> If users create gems that have unresolvable deps (something they can easily 
> do now) thats on them to do. We don't have a reason to police this aspect of 
> gem availability.
>

People will do stupid stuff no matter what you put to block, limit or
safeguard them.

Cheers,
-- 
Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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