Re: [RFC suggestion] Generate manpage directly with Asciidoctor

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 11, 2021, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <609ae59dc3f0c_60649208b8@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YJrV52HOv0mlbJB1@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King wrote:

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> The worst case is just making things slightly more inconvenient for
> Git developers on older systems, because because they might have to
> install an updated gem rather than using the system package (you
> sometimes can end up in dependency hell for a gem upgrade with
> versions of ruby, system libraries, etc, but I haven't found
> asciidoctor particularly needy in that respect).

The asciidoctor gem has *zero* dependencies. If you end up in a dependency hell, it wasn't the fault of asciidoctor, and it won't be affected.

I've been using Ruby for at least 15 years, and I've never found myself in a dependency hell, so it would be interesting to see how anybody could end up there. Sometimes the mix between system and user gems is confusing, but they work fine. I wouldn't call that a "dependency hell".

And of course you can always just `rm -r $GEM_HOME` and start fresh. Most gems install rather quickly.

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Felipe Contreras