I'll be honest, I don't remember why we added this. I think it was basically to ensure that gems that could be pushed could *always* be installed.
I'm suprised metadata hasn't been brought up here. It would solve this entire problem and let jruby gems specify whatever they want. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Evan Phoenix <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel like the crux of the request, removing the dependency name check on > push, has gotten lost in the discussion. > > 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. > > 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. > > Any thoughts? > > -- > Evan Phoenix // [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > RubyGems-Developers mailing list > http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers > _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
