[ruby-core:46125] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6590] Dealing with bigdecimal, etc gems in JRuby

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Aaron Patterson
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 04:22:59PM +0900, mrkn (Kenta Murata) wrote:
>>
>> Issue #6590 has been updated by mrkn (Kenta Murata).
>>
>>
>> I don't know how do I allow the JRuby team to uload the Java version of BigDecimal.
>> What should I do?
>
> You can add headius like this:
>
>   $ gem owner -a [e-mail] bigdecimal
>
> But you need his rubygems.org email address.
>
> Charlie, would this be a sufficient solution for now?  I suspect that
> all stdlib gems suffer from this same problem.  We should think about a
> better solution.  Whenever a CRuby stdlib gem with native code is released,
> an equivalent JRuby gem should be released too.  How can we accomplish
> that?

I dislike this idea at all. If we take it, bigdecimal gem evetually
has c, java, C#,
haskel, pascal, etc implementations when we get more and more various
ruby interpreter.

Actually, this is not bigdecimal issue. It is gem discovery issue. MRI
support two extension types,
C and Ruby. JRuby also support two extension types, Java and Ruby. gem
loader should realized
the fact and prefer to look up Java implementation when used from
JRuby. I think.