2009/3/16 Thibaut Barrère <[email protected]>: >> 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.
Well it makes sense if we are speaking about a mere reminder that a gem targets ironruby (it is not really that good, but there is no other way to do that), but right now it is not possible to *enforce* the compatibility with a specific ruby implementation and/or platform (and this is what I was referring to). By the way... yes, a few gems just use spec.platform to identify themselves as jruby gems: hpricot-0.6.164.gem hpricot-0.6.164-mswin32.gem hpricot-0.6.164-jruby.gem Honestly, the fact that spec.platform was intended for different purposes does not imply that we should not follow what seems the de-facto way to overcome the current limits of gemspecs :-) > As well, I'm not sure what setting the "platform" actually implies. http://rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#platform "If this attribute is set to a non-default value, it will be included in the filename of the gem when it is built, e.g. fxruby-1.2.0-win32.gem.". See also "gem help platforms" > 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. In this case I would simply opt for two separate gems: diacritics_fu (pure ruby) and diacritics_fu-ironruby. I don't think that MRI guys are actually interested in having .NET assemblies in their installed gems :-) -- Daniele Alessandri http://www.clorophilla.net/blog/ http://twitter.com/JoL1hAHN _______________________________________________ Ironruby-core mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core
