On 11/29/06, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 29, 2006, at 0504 , Chad Fowler wrote: > > On 11/28/06, Chad Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Anyway, it's almost releasable, except for one hitch: I can't figure > >> out how to programatically specify a platform for multiplatform/ > >> binary > >> gems; I always get prompted with the list of platform/version > >> choices. > > > > Hi. You're right that this is a limitation. Jim and I discussed it > > at length at the recent Rails Edge conference. We have a solution in > > mind, but we haven't started hacking yet. > > Can you discuss details? I'd like the tinderbox to not waste time > and bandwidth attempting to run non-platform gems. (And be capable > of running platform gems.) > > -- > Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blog.segment7.net > >
We talked about several possibilities, but I think what we settled on is having RubyGems look for a list of matching platforms in best-match order. This would mean the client would have a built-in taxonomy of sorts. We would then allow you to override it via the command line or the gemrc. We created this project called tattle (http://rubyforge.org/projects/tattle/) to start collecting info about the install footprint of the Ruby community hoping it would help us create this little taxonomy of platforms. I think we'll be surprised at how many different platform combos we see. Thoughts? Chad _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
