From: "John-Mason P. Shackelford" Date: 2006-05-23T07:32:41+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] rcov 0.4.0 (code coverage) - scriptability, accuracy, unrotten internals I was recently faced with the issue of packaging a library that needed to execute cross platform but for which a windows binary was required and wondered why, when a win32 library is required, we don't just package it in a win32 directory inside the gem and require it when the platform is win32. These binaries take up very little disk space (which is cheap anyway) and I'd rather have a little unused windows dll on my Linux systems than to bother with installing (and maintaining) different gems for different platforms. Okay, Jim, tell me I am crazy. (Or ignorant--that would be much worse.) -- John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 john-mason.shackelford@pearson.com http://pearsonedmeasurement.com -- John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 john-mason.shackelford@pearson.com http://pearsonedmeasurement.com