fix (mostly!) the updates system

[sup] / HACKING

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index 47c072d14ba1c3a447c000345210b32c4e9ed6b6..8a3dae60356f015ffcd404b788305d41108ee488 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@ Invoke it like this:
 
 ruby -I lib -w bin/sup
 
+You'll have to install all gems mentioned in the Rakefile (look for the line
+setting p.extra_deps). If you're on a Debian or Debian-based system (e.g.
+Ubuntu), you'll have to make sure you have a complete Ruby installation,
+especially libssl-ruby.
+
 Coding standards
 ----------------
 
-- Wrap code at 99999 characters. The days of 80-column displays are
-  long over. Wrap comments and other text at whatever Emacs meta-Q
-  does.
-- Use as few parentheses as possible.
+- Don't wrap code unless it really benefits from it. The days of
+  80-column displays are long over. But do wrap comments and other
+  text at whatever Emacs meta-Q does.
+- I like poetry mode.
 - Use {} for one-liner blocks and do/end for multi-line blocks.
-- For one-line functions, put a semicolon before "end", like this:
-    def bool_writer *args; attr_writer(*args); end
-  (I just started doing this for no real reason, and now I kinda like
-  it.)