[Ironruby-core] Recommendations for (IronRuby) gem packaging ?

Jimmy Schementi
Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:06:25 -0000

Isn''t "platform" used to identify a gem as a JRuby gem?
Granted, it''s not perfect, but having IronRuby gems set the platform to
"ironruby" would seem to make sense with the current state of
rubygems. Is there a reason not to do this, and (other than waiting for changes
to rubygems) is there a better way to accomplish this?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-
> bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Daniele Alessandri
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:34 AM
> To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org
> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Recommendations for (IronRuby) gem
> packaging ?
>
> Hi Thibaut,
>
> AFAIK there is no way (yet) to enforce the compatibility of a gem with
> one or more ruby implementations, e.g. mri, jruby, ironruby, etc. If
> I''m not going wrong there was a discussion a while back on
ruby-talk
> about the necessity of extending the current gemspec with a new
> attribute to meet this kind of requirement as the existing
"platform"
> attribute was not intended for something like this and, in fact, it is
> not quite the same.
>
> I was thinking of packaging my ironruby-hpricot as a gem for ironruby
> (btw the source is hosted on github, see
> http://github.com/nrk/ironruby-hpricot/ ... never had the chance to
> announce it :-)) but I guess it is too early as ironruby''s
internals
> seem to be still a "moving target" (I had to push a few fixes
last
> week due to changes).
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:29, Thibaut Barr?re
> <thibaut.barrere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I''m thinking about packaging some gems from github.
> > So I''m wondering if it already possible to package a gem so
that:
> > 1 - it is marked as compatible *only* with IronRuby ?
> > 2 - it is marked as compatible also with IronRuby (as well as other
> > platforms) ?
> > What would be the platform indication ?
> > I''m also looking for any other useful information from people
who
> tried to
> > package an IronRuby gem.
> > cheers and thanks for any feedback,
> > -- Thibaut
>
>
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> Daniele Alessandri
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