On Jan 17, 2012, at 16:13 , Luis Lavena wrote: > That leaves out gems with native dependencies like qtbindings. > > QT is massive and to ask users to compile it to be able to install it > on Windows is very problematic. > > qtbindings pre-compiled for Windows weight ~43MB, the limit you > comment will block them from publishing gems. > > There are other gems with pre-compiled bindings like qtbindings or > gtk2 (12MB) out.
Maybe we should have a second gem source that doesn't have this restriction but isn't run by rubycentral and is sponsored by someone else (even if just by bandwidth)? After seeing a number of exponentially growing projects I do think _something_ needs to be done. My insistence on using hand checked manifests will only go so far. :P _______________________________________________ RubyGems-Developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems RubyGems-Developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
