On Nov 9, 2007 5:04 PM, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007, at 08:45 , Trans wrote: > > > Would this suffice for adding a fall back option to Installer? It also > > requires that 'extensions_fallback' be added to the gemspec. > > extconf.rb can be set up to do this already. Check for all your > dependencies, and if one of them doesn't exist, generate a Makefile > that does nothing. If you fail to compile for some other reason, I > think it is too dangerous to automatically fall back.
That doesn't work if there is no make/nmake on the system. Plus, the fall back is pure ruby. So if it fails for _any reason_ it would be okay --that's the point. It would just give a warning that native extension didn't compile, but the library was still usable in pure ruby "mode". T. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
