On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Trans <transf...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know about platform gems. But can RubyGems differentiate a jruby gem > from, say, an mri gem? What about an mri 1.8 from a 1.9? Or is there > only supposed to one gem that handle these distinctions internally? >
I've raised this question not long ago: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2009-April/004522.html For a project I'm working now, using the platform I can separate mri/java and now ironruby gems. But of course, I cannot individualize Ruby versions, so I ended doing that in the code. > Personally I like the later notion, but I need to understand if > RubyGems can distinguish them in the sense that it distinguishes > platform gems. Not at this time, and highly unlikely is going to happen, as that will require change in the Specification, indexing and fetching mechanisms, which if you read the above thread, will see not going to happen. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
