[Rubygems-developers] Updating source index is slow

[Tom Clarke]

When thinking about this in the past, I thought that having windows
binaries and source for everything else might just work. Since when
people talk about platforms without a standardized build environment
they usually mean windows.

Putting binary packages aside, does gems support the necessary
features to do source packages for dbi - that is being able to pass
compilation options (perhaps like gentoo USE="mysql")?

-Tom


> WRT packaging DBI: This will require binary packages if it is to work well,
> I think.  David Ross is coordinating a project to try to make this work for
> Windows; he's probably primarily targetting RPA (as he is a fan of ours), but
> it should probably be possible to use a lot of the results for RubyGems, too.
> 
> The problem turned out to be much more icky than at least I thought; I've
> been used to doing binary packages and having that be only a minor part
> of the problem in packaging.  However, the issue of platforms without a
> standardized build environment (Windows, especially) turns this nasty.
> 
> Eivind.
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