Hi all,
when deploying gems automatically it would be great if we could
somehow know which system requirements a native gem has. I've read in
the documentation that there is the requirements field that can be
used for that purpose. However, the requirements field is "free text",
and that makes it difficult to parse with an automatic tool.
Then, I thought about sending a PR to the native gems we use so that
they have this information in a more "structred" way. For example, for
rmagick, the PR would add this to the gemspec:
s.requirements = ["libMagick.so >= 6.6.0", "pkgconfig(libMagick) >= 6.6.0"]
meaning that rmagick gem needs libMagick and libMagick-devel.
What do you think on writing the requirements in such a way? Do you
have any recomendation on that?
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