Quoting Evan Phoenix <e...@phx.io>:
This has been brought up before and we've rejected it. There is no
reasonable way for rubygems to make sense of the values in
requirements because their entirely system dependent.
In 2.0, gem metadata can be used to store these kinds of values for
you to write a tool that will read them (which again will have to
deal with the system dependent issues itself).
Does this mean we could have something like:
metadata["linux_requirements"] = ["libMagick.so >= 6.6.2"]
where can I find more information on the metadata?
thanks
jordi
- Evan
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Evan Phoenix // e...@phx.io
On Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 9:08 AM, Jordi Massaguer Pla wrote:
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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