On Apr 17, 2007, at 22:01, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > Jim Weirich wrote: >> On 4/17/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there a way in RubyGems today to specify that one of a number of >>> modules would be considered equivalent, and to load whichever is >>> actually present? So that during install, options could be >>> presented for >>> multiple named gems that provide the same functionality? >> >> Would it work to just make platform dependent variants of the gems in >> question? Currently, RubyGems will make you manually choose the right >> platform (future versions will autoselect the correct platform for >> you). > > I think it's more than just choosing the right platform...it's an > issue > that if every gem out there depends on "mongrel" there's not a > thing we > can do to force them to install and run with "jmongrel", even if > the two > are nearly identical.
No, they'd install the java platformed mongrel, much like there's a mswin and ruby platformed mysql gem. Nothing changes in code anywhere, people running jruby instead install java gems. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
