[Ruby] hoe and Manifest.txt

[Timothy J. Wood]

On Nov 1, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Ryan Davis wrote:
> Applied, even tho you submitted the worst patch ever. Dude. You
> should know better. Use -u. :P

   Yeah, yeah... I thought about it :)


> That actually seems just fine to me. spec_extras has been making me
> happy lately. Do you feel it is sufficient or would you prefer first
> class support?

   Maybe just a note in the README synopsis about extra steps for this  
case?
Still, if there is an ext/extconf.rb, there's just about only one  
thing that can be
done, so it might as well be the default.


> What will happen is that anyone wanting to unpack said gem will have
> a completely broken rakefile until they figure out they need hoe. So
> if someone wants to submit a patch to you, they have an extra hurdle
> to debug first.

  Yah, I'll add back the dependency.

-tim