From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2012-07-03T18:30:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:46136] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6590]  Dealing with bigdecimal, etc gems in JRuby

On 02/07/12 15:51, Aaron Patterson 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 headius@example.org 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?
>
Surely it's only necessary to coordinate both when the API changes?  If 
it's just bug-fixes, they should be independent.

-- 
Alex