[Rubygems-developers] Platform selection in gem install

[Eric Hodel]

On Aug 14, 2007, at 14:22, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> On 8/8/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>> On Jul 25, 2007, at 15:18, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
>>> I'd rather manage package sources by editing /etc/rubygems
>>> configuration file.
>> This sounds like an excellent way to do it.
>
> And the Windows solution? The advantage to sources.gem is that it's in
> the same place that Rubygems itself is. There's probably a better
> solution overall, but let's not make a Unix-only solution, even though
> I only use Windows for work development these days.

Right now the /etc/ part isn't implemented, default sources are built- 
in, active sources are stored in ~/.gemrc and sources are managed via  
`gem sources`.

I think the multiuser windows box is a rarity so the ~/.gemrc should  
be sufficient.

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