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+Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
+  files = []
+  dirs = %w{lib examples etc patterns}
+  dirs.each do |dir|
+    files += Dir["#{dir}/**/*"]
+  end
+
+  #rev = %x{svn info}.split("\n").grep(/Revision:/).first.split(" ").last.to_i
+  rev = Time.now.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
+  spec.name = "logstash-lite"
+  spec.version = "0.2.#{rev}"
+  spec.summary = "logstash - log and event management (lite install, no dependencies)"
+  spec.description = "scalable log and event management (search, archive, pipeline)"
+  spec.add_dependency("eventmachine-tail")
+  spec.add_dependency("json")
+  #spec.add_dependency("awesome_print")
+
+  # For http requests (elasticsearch, etc)
+  #spec.add_dependency("em-http-request")
+
+  # For the 'grok' filter
+  #spec.add_dependency("jls-grok", ">= 0.2.3071")
+
+  # TODO: In the future, make these optional
+  # for websocket://
+  #spec.add_dependency("em-websocket")
+
+  # For amqp://
+  #spec.add_dependency("amqp")
+  #spec.add_dependency("uuidtools")
+  
+  # For the web interface
+  #spec.add_dependency("async_sinatra")
+  #spec.add_dependency("rack")
+  #spec.add_dependency("thin")
+  #spec.add_dependency("haml")
+
+  spec.files = files
+  spec.require_paths << "lib"
+  spec.bindir = "bin"
+  spec.executables << "logstash"
+  spec.executables << "logstash-web"
+
+  spec.author = "Jordan Sissel"
+  spec.email = "jls@semicomplete.com"
+  spec.homepage = "http://code.google.com/p/logstash/"
+end
+