[Rubygems-developers] Platform selection in gem install

[Uwe Kubosch]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 10:43 -0600, Alexey Verkhovsky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The issue of platform-specific gems was discussed here before, and we
> also had some conversations during the last RailsConf about what a
> solution could look like in the ideal world, although it doesn't look
> like anyone has bandwidth to make it happen.
> 
> However, I'd like to contribute a 5% solution that solves half of my
> own problems. Namely, replace
> 
>   echo "1" | gem install mongrel
> 
> with
> 
>   gem install mongrel --platform linux-i386
> 
> Would a patch that does it be welcome?

YES!  PLEASE!


Uwe