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

Thibaut Barrère
Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:08:27 -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?


I think it is - although I''m no expert here.

As well, I''m not sure what setting the "platform" actually
implies.

For instance, I have developed gems that target the MRI. I''m thinking
about
adding native support for IronRuby. One example is diacritics_fu (
http://github.com/thbar/diacritics_fu/tree/master) that removes accents from
strings. Under .Net, I can achieve that natively using encoding stuff. So
basically this gem would become usable under both MRI and IronRuby, it just
doesn''t use the same underlying stuff depending on who is using it.

I anticipate that more and more gems could face this situation.

I''m not sure how to define the platform in these cases.

raw thoughts...

-- Thibaut





>
>
> > -----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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Daniele Alessandri
> > http://www.clorophilla.net/blog/
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