I think that's a good plan. Echoe has some rudimentary cross-compilation (used for JRuby), but not for Mingw. Your way is better.
My plan is as so: Gossamer + Rack launch script + some optimizations/bugfixes + Ruby 1.9 compat = more or less Mongrel 2.0. This puts you in a tough spot, but it's probably best to branch off Gossamer and let me forward-port whatever is missing. The 1.x branches are effectively dead, except for a Ruby 1.9 compat update (v1.1.6). I promise to get to this every weekend, and don't, so I'll stop promising. I may be able to squeeze some time out of work to spend on it. Evan On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Guys, mainly Evan, > > With the goal to move One-Click Ruby Installer to use MinGW (GCC) > compiler, I found there is no binary for mongrel for that platform. > > Because of that, the migration for lot of folks will require install > the development toolkit, which I'm trying to avoid. > > Being the maintainer of the Windows builds of Mongrel, been wanted to > upgrade it to use rake-compiler project. > > rake-compiler has been out for a while, and several projects has been > migrated to it successfully, including ruby-ffi, johnson, nokogiri and > others. > > Now, a few questions before I invest a lot of time with mongrel repository. > > I'm working over "master" at fauna repository: > > http://github.com/fauna/mongrel > > My plan is the following: > > Ensure both current and new One-Click works with Mongrel. > Ensure building binaries for it either native or cross platform works > flawlessly > > Now, I have a few blockers: > > Dunno which branch is the proper one. last time I worked on 1.2 > improving MinGW support and 1.1.5 got out without taking those > patches. > > Echoe extension compilation is interfering with rake-compiler one, is > there a way to disable it? > > Elliot Cable left a message when I first imported rake-compiler to GitHub: > > http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/commit/28e938cf837c6859197000cc647f84f92668f0b6#comments > > Again, the goal of rake-compiler is not just simplify the compilation, > but also provide something that Echoe or Hoe doesn't: cross > compilation. > > Well, I've shared my plan, what do you guys think? > > Cheers, > -- > Luis Lavena > AREA 17 > - > Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, > but rather when there is nothing more to take away. > Antoine de Saint-Exupéry > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-development mailing list > mongrel-developm...@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-development > -- Evan Weaver _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
