Chris Nelson wrote:
BTW, Jim says he will be at rubyconf this weekend if anyone wants to get together to speak with him about the best way to solve gem versioning/platform issues for jruby. I'm ccing him on this.
By far the biggest headache is the major, major hassle involved in getting a Java/JRuby-based version of a gem released. Even if we're nicey nicey with the original gem creators, it's still like pulling teeth to get our releases out. We've had some successes, like the Hpricot gem and the upcoming official Mongrel JRuby gem, but it's still a lot of overhead to have to join a project or "throw gems over the fence" when we want them released under the actual project/gem name.
With more platforms coming online, I don't think the "only the original gem author can release under that name" is going to scale. There needs to be a way to "bless" other projects to release their own platform-specific versions of a given gem, or an equivalency system to be able to say things like "jruby-debug is equivalent to ruby-debug when on the java platform, and should be requirable/installable with either name".
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