Do you mean that it would automatically install based on detecting the platform, unless the user overrides it? This seems slightly dangerous, because there's the potential of having the wrong gem installed.
On a related note, I think that the supported platforms are currently hardcoded as constants. This may not scale in the future. For example, I can imagine different gems for Win XP vs. Vista, or 32 bit vs 64 bit. Should the supported platforms be hardcoded, or should the gem owner be able to select any arbitrary string for the platform? -- Chad W. On 11/30/06, Chad Fowler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > Thoughts? > > Chad _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
