[rspec-users] External Dependencies (was Multi-line steps)

[David Chelimsky]

On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:13 AM, aslak hellesoy wrote:

> I'm working on a Treetop (http://treetop.rubyforge.org/)
> implementation of the Story parser.

Hey Aslak, while I love the idea of exploiting treetop for this, this  
would be our first external dependency for end users. That was one of  
the reasons I didn't use treetop in the first place - it had just been  
released and Brian suggested exporing it when I was working on Plain  
Text Stories.

Personally, I'm in support of external dependencies, especially in  
light of recent improvements to Rubygems that make it even easier for  
a gem to manage its own dependencies. But thus far we've had an only  
slightly-less-than-official policy of no external dependencies. Has  
your thinking on this issue shifted as well?