Attached is a new patch I would propose to address the feedback from the Ruby Gems team. I would love some feedback on it.
It is a patch against rev 2463 of trunk of Ruby Gems source. -- Will Green http://hotgazpacho.org/ On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Will Green <w...@hotgazpacho.org> wrote: > Based on some work that Shri and I did to figure this out, I have created > and submitted a patch to Ruby Gems to include support form .Net native gems: > > > http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27951&group_id=126&atid=577 > > > <http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=27951&group_id=126&atid=577>As > you can see, I've gotten some push-back from the Ruby Gems team on the > naming of the platform for the gems. The problem is that they don't like the > "." in ".net" (i.e. "universal-.net-2.0"), and have suggested alternatives > such as "dotnet", "dotNet", and "Net". I have asked for clarification on > their position. > > If I understand the Gem::Platform class correctly, the initialize method > takes in the values read from RbConfig, and performs some translation to > come up with a Gem platform name. So, without any changes to IronRuby > itself, we could have gems with names like > "iron-term-ansicolor-universal-dotnet". Of course, it would require a small > tweak to the version of Ruby Gems that is distributed with IronRuby, but the > change is very minor. > > So, does anyone object to .Net native gems like: > > "gemname-universal-dotnet" > "gemname-universal-dotnet-2.0" > "gemname-universal-dotnet-4.0" > > I think this would get the patch accepted more quickly. > > Is this kosher with LCA, or even something that needs to be brought to > their attention? > > -- > Will Green > http://hotgazpacho.org/ > > > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Jim Deville <jdevi...@microsoft.com>wrote: > >> I’m also wondering what will happen if you put the gem on two different >> gem servers (if that is possible, like github and rubyforge). Does gem >> attempt all sources to find the most specific? Or does it go with the most >> specific gem from the first source? >> >> >> >> JD >> >> >> >> *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: >> ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Shri Borde >> *Sent:* Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:53 PM >> >> *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org >> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby version of existing gems >> >> >> >> Will, could you recreate the universal-.net gem again and push it? I think >> it might have been created incorrectly. The persisted Gem::Specification has >> @new_platform and @original_platform set to “universal-unknown” which might >> happen if you create it with MRI as I had mentioned below… >> >> >> >> *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: >> ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Shri Borde >> *Sent:* Sunday, March 07, 2010 2:27 PM >> *To:* ironruby-core@rubyforge.org >> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby version of existing gems >> >> >> >> My guess is that RubyGems tries to look for an exact platform match first. >> If there is no exact match, it somehow prefers “ruby” over other platforms. >> >> >> >> Btw, you could just change clr_version in >> Merlin\Main\Languages\Ruby\Libs\rbconfig.rb to “4.0” to simulate running on >> .NET 4. After doing this and using the “—platform universal-.net” option, >> iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net*-2.0* was installed which was >> surprising to me as I would have expected it to install >> iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net. When I used the “—platform >> universal-.net-4.0” option, iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3 was installed which >> was also surprising. So there does not seem to be any way to install >> iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net. >> >> >> >> *From:* ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org [mailto: >> ironruby-core-boun...@rubyforge.org] *On Behalf Of *Will Green >> *Sent:* Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:33 AM >> *To:* ironruby-core >> *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] IronRuby version of existing gems >> >> >> >> Thanks, Daniele! >> >> >> >> I've got three version of iron-term-ansicolor out there on RubyGems.org: >> >> >> >> - iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3 >> (gemspec.platform="ruby") >> - iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net >> (gemspec.platform="universal-.net") >> - iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net-2.0 >> (gemspec.platform="universal-.net-2.0") >> >> >> >> It looks like the .Net 4 runtime selected the non-platform specific gem, >> while the .Net 2 runtime selected the "universal-.net-2.0" gem. >> >> >> -- >> Will Green >> http://hotgazpacho.org/ >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Daniele Alessandri <suppaki...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 08:07, Will Green <w...@hotgazpacho.org> wrote: >> >> > I would appreciate if someone running the latest from git would try >> > ir -S gem install iron-term-ansicolor >> > on both the .Net 2 and the .Net 4 runtimes, and let me know which gem >> gets >> > installed. >> >> C:\Users\nrk\Repositories\ironruby\Merlin\Main\bin\Debug>ir --version >> IronRuby 0.9.4.0 on .NET 2.0.50727.4200 >> >> C:\Users\nrk\Repositories\ironruby\Merlin\Main\bin\Debug>ir -S gem >> install iron-term-ansicolor --no-rdoc --no-ri >> >> Successfully installed iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3-universal-.net-2.0 >> 1 gem installed >> >> C:\Users\nrk\Repositories\ironruby\Merlin\Main\bin\Debug>ir --version >> IronRuby 0.9.4.0 on .NET 4.0.30128.1 >> >> C:\Users\nrk\Repositories\ironruby\Merlin\Main\bin\Debug>ir -S gem >> install iron-term-ansicolor --no-rdoc --no-ri >> >> Successfully installed iron-term-ansicolor-0.0.3 >> >> 1 gem installed >> >> -- >> Daniele Alessandri >> http://www.clorophilla.net/ >> http://twitter.com/JoL1hAHN >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ironruby-core mailing list >> Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ironruby-core mailing list >> Ironruby-core@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core >> >> >
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