[Rubygems-developers] New beta tonight

[Eric Hodel]

On Nov 15, 2007, at 16:05 , Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Nov 15, 2007 6:43 PM, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>> They probably specified it by hand.  There's all kinds of bizarre
>> platforms in existence that don't match the constants.  The indexer
>> should support all these legacy strings, though.
>
> The use Gem::Platform::CURRENT which took RUBY_PLATFORM as  
> spec.platform :-P
>
> The new indexer is processing i386-mswin32 with the new GNU-triplet
> instead of the old ::WIN32 'mswin32' platform.
>
> Chicken-egg situation :-P
> (New indexer interpreting old gems -- 0.9.4 rubygems_version as >  
> 0.9.4).

I forced the indexer to always use @original_platform when doing its  
thing, so it won't be interpreted.  This should be fixed.

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