On Apr 24, 2007, at 19:13, Jim Weirich wrote: > Eric Hodel wrote: >> On Apr 23, 2007, at 19:14, Jim Weirich wrote: >> >>> I haven't seen the results of tattle yet (perhaps Chad would like >>> to share the gathered data) >> >> Its downloadable from: http://tattle.rubygarden.org/ > > Thanks. > > Going over the tattle data is interesting. And it raises a number of > questions. > > (1) Do we need to differentiate between the various ix86 hardware > architectures (e.g. i386, i486, i586, i686)? If not, fine. If so, > then > when choosing among available platformed varients, a i686 platform > should be able to choose any of the iX86 variants, but a i486 would > only > be able to choose between i386 and i486 variants. (Is that correct?)
I think the distinction is bogus. While its possible, I really doubt there's any Ruby-C code that requires a specific processor in the x86 family. > In any case, X86_64 would have to be distinct from all the others. Yes. > (2) What's up with Darwin8.8.1 stuff. My Mac claims to be 10.4.9, but > Ruby is Darwin8.8.1. Is the 8.8.1 the BSD version, not the Mac OS > version? Its the Darwin version. 10.4 is Darwin 8, 10.3 is Darwin 7, etc. See also: http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2007/01/10/tattle-host-os > (3) Sheesh, 17% of the respondents are running RubyGems 0.8.11. Just > haven't upgraded? ... or technical issues with later version causing > problems? (inquiring minds want to know). Likely, laziness. > (4) Woah ... the prefix data looks a little revealing. Perhaps that > shouldn't be on the download page (i.e. I now know where one prominent > JRuby developer keeps his JRuby installation). It doesn't matter, its not a secret. > (5) I'm guessing that 'target' is the platform Ruby is intended to run > on and 'host' is the platform where it was compiled. Is that right? I'm guessing the same. The autoconf documentation would say for sure. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
