[Rubygems-developers] Enhancement Proposal: Would like be able to programatically specify platform

[Eric Hodel]

On Nov 30, 2006, at 1034 , Chad Fowler wrote:
> On 11/29/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 2006, at 0504 , Chad Fowler wrote:
>>> On 11/28/06, Chad Woolley <thewoolleyman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Anyway, it's almost releasable, except for one hitch:  I can't  
>>>> figure
>>>> out how to programatically specify a platform for multiplatform/
>>>> binary
>>>> gems; I always get prompted with the list of platform/version
>>>> choices.
>>>
>>> Hi.  You're right that this is a limitation.  Jim and I discussed it
>>> at length at the recent Rails Edge conference.  We have a  
>>> solution in
>>> mind, but we haven't started hacking yet.
>>
>> Can you discuss details?  I'd like the tinderbox to not waste time
>> and bandwidth attempting to run non-platform gems.  (And be capable
>> of running platform gems.)
>
> We talked about several possibilities, but I think what we settled on
> is having RubyGems look for a list of matching platforms in best-match
> order.  This would mean the client would have a built-in taxonomy of
> sorts.  We would then allow you to override it via the command line or
> the gemrc.

An array of platforms should be good-enough.  You can probably even  
default to (detected_platform, RUBY).

> We created this project called tattle
> (http://rubyforge.org/projects/tattle/) to start collecting info about
> the install footprint of the Ruby community hoping it would help us
> create this little taxonomy of platforms.  I think we'll be surprised
> at how many different platform combos we see.

When will tattle be released?

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