[ruby-talk:444050] Re: [ANN] hoe 4.0.0 Released

I'd encourage you to try what the rest of the ruby community is running vs hyping up old friends projects. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 7:18 PM Corey Donohoe &lt;atmos(a)atmos.org&gt; wrote: > Hoe is shitty because it comes from a terrible place > https://www.zenspider.com/ruby/2006/10/unattended-hoes.html > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 6:13 PM Austin Ziegler &lt;halostatue(a)gmail.com&gt; > wrote: > >> Absolutely: `bundle gem` doesn’t really do anything for you. >> > > We're prolly both biased towards working systems but this is a grossly > misinformed statement. "bundle gem" "gem push" > > >> >> `hoe`, with a few judicious plugins, makes the release process easy. It >> was created by Ryan because he has a prodigious number of gems. >> >> All of the gems that I am the primary maintainer for use Hoe, and have >> since it was first released. >> >> - https://github.com/KineticCafe/app_identity/tree/main/ruby >> - https://github.com/mime-types/ruby-mime-types >> - https://github.com/mime-types/mime-types-data >> - https://github.com/halostatue/diff-lcs >> >> I'm certain that I've used something you've touched in my ruby usage, > but this is keeping it alive for keeping it alive. > > Sure, there’s nothing that I *couldn’t* do with this, but when I get >> ready for release, after updating the version, I basically do: >> >> ```sh >> $ bundle exec rake git:manifest gemspec >> $ git commit -am "Update manifest and gemspec" >> $ bundle exec rake release VERSION=2.3 # or whatever the version number >> is >> ``` >> >> It can, as the first post in this thread shows, even email your >> announcement to ruby-core, but I have disabled that in most of my gems (the >> value has dropped). If Twitter were likely to be an ongoing concern, then >> it might be possible to automate such posts *there*, too, with a hoe plugin. >> >> You can write your gemspec manually, but why would you? >> > > You obviously don't use anything modern. This is solved with bundle gem. > > >> >> You could depend on the Gemfile, but why would you? >> >> Far better to just do the right thing by default and use hoe. >> > > The "right" thing is to reflect on what's best and it's not hoe > > >> >> -a >> >> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 5:47 PM Corey Donohoe &lt;atmos(a)atmos.org&gt; wrote: >> >>> Any reason to use this over the “bundle gem” command so many of us >>> adopted over the last decade? >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 11:56 AM Austin Ziegler via ruby-talk < >>> ruby-talk(a)ml.ruby-lang.org&gt; wrote: >>> >>>> It doesn't look like seattlerb/hoe has been updated. There’s no 4.0.0 >>>> tag and no details on the upgrade path in the History.md. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 2:37 PM Ryan Davis &lt;ryand-ruby(a)zenspider.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> hoe version 4.0.0 has been released! >>>>> >>>>> * home: <http://www.zenspider.com/projects/hoe.html> >>>>> * code: <https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe> >>>>> * bugs: <https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe/issues> >>>>> * rdoc: <http://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/> >>>>> * doco: <http://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf> >>>>> * clog: <https://github.com/seattlerb/hoe/blob/master/History.rdoc> >>>>> * other: <http://github.com/jbarnette/hoe-plugin-examples> >>>>> >>>>> Hoe is a rake/rubygems helper for project Rakefiles. It helps you >>>>> manage, maintain, and release your project and includes a dynamic >>>>> plug-in system allowing for easy extensibility. Hoe ships with >>>>> plug-ins for all your usual project tasks including rdoc generation, >>>>> testing, packaging, deployment, and announcement. >>>>> >>>>> See class rdoc for help. Hint: `ri Hoe` or any of the plugins listed >>>>> below. >>>>> >>>>> For extra goodness, see: http://docs.seattlerb.org/hoe/Hoe.pdf >>>>> >>>>> Changes: >>>>> >>>>> ### 3.26.0 / 2022-10-20 >>>>> >>>>> * 2 minor enhancements: >>>>> >>>>> * Added warning to bundled minitest/test_task. >>>>> * Removed dead rcov plugin and added (simple)cov plugin. >>>>> >>>>> * 1 bug fix: >>>>> >>>>> * Fixed test task load path issue, prepend Hoe.include_dirs to >>>>> ensure they come first. >>>>> ______________________________________________ >>>>> ruby-talk mailing list -- ruby-talk(a)ml.ruby-lang.org >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to ruby-talk-leave(a)ml.ruby-lang.org >>>>> ruby-talk info -- >>>>> https://ml.ruby-lang.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/ruby-talk.ml.ruby-lang.or… >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Austin Ziegler • halostatue(a)gmail.com • austin(a)halostatue.ca >>>> http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue >>>> ______________________________________________ >>>> ruby-talk mailing list -- ruby-talk(a)ml.ruby-lang.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to ruby-talk-leave(a)ml.ruby-lang.org >>>> ruby-talk info -- >>>> https://ml.ruby-lang.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/ruby-talk.ml.ruby-lang.or… >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Austin Ziegler • halostatue(a)gmail.com • austin(a)halostatue.ca >> http://www.halostatue.ca/ • http://twitter.com/halostatue >> >