From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-18T11:20:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Import gem to Ruby 1.9

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:44:29 +0900,
> Marcus Rueckert wrote in [ruby-core:12724]:
>> there is another feature that gem doesnt handle nicely atm:
>> with the standard ruby directory layout you can share the tree via nfs
>> for multiple architectures as the native extensions are in an arch
>> specific path. within an installed gem they are directly inside the
>> "lib" subdir. i wonder if gem should use the arch specific subdirs below
>> its "lib" subdir aswell.
> 
> Strongly agreed.

This also affects JRuby when sharing a gem dir.

- Charlie