From: Patrick Gundlach <clr8.10.randomuser@...>
Date: 2006-02-09T04:58:26+09:00
Subject: distributing native and ruby version of a library

Hi,

I have a simple library, one in a pure ruby version and one in a
ruby/c version (which is quicker). I would like to distribute both and
let the user decide (by checking whether a c library is available)
which version to install. What would a clever way to accomplish that?
Should I make the decision when running extconf.rb? Any hints?

Patrick

(the directory structure so far)

rb/mylib.rb

c/mylib.rb
 /mylib_base.c
 /extconf.rb

both should be used by require 'mylib' or alike.