On Nov 29, 2007, at 18:39 PM, Trans wrote: > Welll. I have it. Its quite simple. This is how it works: if you set > 'extensions_fallback' to true in the gemspec and an extension fails to > build on install then it says "Native extension failed to compile, but > this gem has a fallback option. Would you like to complete the install > without the native extensions or abort? [Y/n] > > If the RubyGems team thinks this is acceptable I'll send it their > way... Honestly, I don't know how else it can be done. Without this > one is stuck with maintaning a secondary gem and trying to inform > potential users that there is a pure ruby option in case the native > extension one fails --but maybe that's what the RubyGems team > considers the better approach?
I like this, but I think extensions_fallback is a bad name. Go ahead and submit the patch, and maybe we can think up a good name in the meantime. _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
