<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Isn't "platform" used to identify a gem as a JRuby gem? Granted, it's not perfect, but having IronRuby gems set the platform to "ironruby" would seem to make sense with the current state of rubygems. Is there a reason not to do this, and (other than waiting for changes to rubygems) is there a better way to accomplish this?</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I think it is - although I'm no expert here.</div><div><br></div><div>As well, I'm not sure what setting the "platform" actually implies.</div><div><br></div><div>For instance, I have developed gems that target the MRI. I'm thinking about adding native support for IronRuby. One example is diacritics_fu (<a href="http://github.com/thbar/diacritics_fu/tree/master">http://github.com/thbar/diacritics_fu/tree/master</a>) that removes accents from strings. Under .Net, I can achieve that natively using encoding stuff. So basically this gem would become usable under both MRI and IronRuby, it just doesn't use the same underlying stuff depending on who is using it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I anticipate that more and more gems could face this situation.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how to define the platform in these cases.</div><div><br></div><div>raw thoughts...</div><div><br>
</div><div>-- Thibaut</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
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> <a href="mailto:bounces@rubyforge.org">bounces@rubyforge.org</a>] On Behalf Of Daniele Alessandri<br>
> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:34 AM<br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ironruby-core@rubyforge.org">ironruby-core@rubyforge.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] Recommendations for (IronRuby) gem<br>
> packaging ?<br>
><br>
> Hi Thibaut,<br>
><br>
> AFAIK there is no way (yet) to enforce the compatibility of a gem with<br>
> one or more ruby implementations, e.g. mri, jruby, ironruby, etc. If<br>
> I'm not going wrong there was a discussion a while back on ruby-talk<br>
> about the necessity of extending the current gemspec with a new<br>
> attribute to meet this kind of requirement as the existing "platform"<br>
> attribute was not intended for something like this and, in fact, it is<br>
> not quite the same.<br>
><br>
> I was thinking of packaging my ironruby-hpricot as a gem for ironruby<br>
> (btw the source is hosted on github, see<br>
> <a href="http://github.com/nrk/ironruby-hpricot/" target="_blank">http://github.com/nrk/ironruby-hpricot/</a> ... never had the chance to<br>
> announce it :-)) but I guess it is too early as ironruby's internals<br>
> seem to be still a "moving target" (I had to push a few fixes last<br>
> week due to changes).<br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 11:29, Thibaut Barrère<br>
> <<a href="mailto:thibaut.barrere@gmail.com">thibaut.barrere@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > Hi,<br>
> > I'm thinking about packaging some gems from github.<br>
> > So I'm wondering if it already possible to package a gem so that:<br>
> > 1 - it is marked as compatible *only* with IronRuby ?<br>
> > 2 - it is marked as compatible also with IronRuby (as well as other<br>
> > platforms) ?<br>
> > What would be the platform indication ?<br>
> > I'm also looking for any other useful information from people who<br>
> tried to<br>
> > package an IronRuby gem.<br>
> > cheers and thanks for any feedback,<br>
> > -- Thibaut<br>
><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Daniele Alessandri<br>
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