[Rubygems-developers] dependency version constraints

[Ryan Davis]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 11:13 , TRANS wrote:

> I have a question about versioning and the gem command...
>
> If use #gem to constrain the version, does the gems dependencies
> likewise become constrained? Eg. If I have gem 'foo-1.0' that depends
> on a gem 'bar 2.0+', does
>
>   gem 'foo', '>= 1.0'
>
> automatically cause:
>
>   gem 'foo', '>= 2.0'

Huh?

Why would a dependency from foo-1.0 to bar-2.0+ change a gem call on  
foo for 1+ to 2+?