From: Rick DeNatale Date: 2007-05-24T22:23:12+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] gembuilder 1.1.3 Released On 5/24/07, Francis Cianfrocca wrote: > On 5/24/07, benjohn@fysh.org wrote: > > > > > > No doubt this has occurred to someone already, but wouldn't it be great > > if something like Ruby Forge automatically compiled up the binaries for > > a sensible range of target platforms? > > > > Obviously one problem is resources. Another is that the most-broadly "right" > way to compile extensions on Windows is to use VC6, which isn't necessarily > easy to get anymore if you don't already have it. (Please please, no one > start a threadjack along the lines of "I don't know what's wrong with your > extensions, but mine compile fine on Express 2005"!) > > I remember vaguely that we discussed this here about a year ago. I offered > to set up a build farm for compiling RubyForge gems but no one bit. And, until gems implements automatic platform detection, I'd be concerned that building multiple binary gems would drive some of us nuts with the prompts when we tried to install a gem. -- Rick DeNatale My blog on Ruby http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/