[Rubygems-developers] where to stash non-library files

[Jamis Buck]

Chad Fowler wrote:

>> I know ruby-talk has had some discussion of installing binary 
>> libraries, or compiling them from source, via gems. Do you have any 
>> ideas about how you are going to accomplish this, or is it still 
>> pretty much up in the air?
> 
> Rich and I have been chatting about it over the past few days.  I think 
> he's going to whip up a  prototype based on our discussions.
> 

Glad to hear it.  I'm frankly chomping-at-the-bit for this feature, 
since I've got a few libraries of mine with C modules I'd love to make 
into gems (sqlite-ruby among them).

-- 
Jamis Buck
jgb3 at email.byu.edu
http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis

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