Luis Lavena wrote: <snip> >> Ideally I'd like to be able to set this up as an either-or, with >> something like "gem install win32-service --from-source" to force a >> build if the user wants to build from source instead of using the >> binary. Is such an option possible? >> > > Daniel, > > Based on rubygems documentation and experience, if you have two gems > with the same version, but both with different platforms (ruby and > mswin32), rubygems will offer you a choice on which one will be > installed. > > Basically, if you want the user build the native extensions by > himself, download the ruby version, any other case (ala no compiler), > download the prebuild gem.
I thought about that, but I worry it will just confuse the newbs. I can see it now - "Hey, which of these am I suppose to install?". Assuming gems doesn't provide an alternative I'll just have to deal with it I guess. Thanks, Dan _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
