From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-10-27T16:39:36+09:00
Subject: Re: gem bin stubs

On Oct 26, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Eric Hodel wrote:

>> $ gem help install
>> Usage: gem install GEMNAME [options]
>>
>>  Options:
[...]
>>    -w, --[no-]wrappers              Use bin wrappers for executables
>>                                     Not available on dosish platforms
>>    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Courtesy of the first Seattle.rb RubyGems hackfest.
>>
>
> but that's client side.  that means that if i put a /bin/sh script  
> or, worse,
> a.out program into bin and gem it up i'll depend on every client  
> doing this or
> else those programs will be hosed.  is there a way to specify this  
> behaviour in
> the spec?

No.  We didn't even think of that.

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