From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-10-09T09:05:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Which gem to install on win32?



On Oct 8, 2:25 pm, ema...@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (E. Mark Ping) wrote:
> Occasionally, when installing win32-specific gems, I get choices
> like the following (I'll use win32-process as an example):
>
> 1. win32-process 0.5.3 (ruby)
> 2. win32-process 0.5.2 (ruby)
> 3. win32-process 0.5.1 (ruby)
> 4. win32-process 0.5.0 (mswin32)
> 5. Skip this gem
> 6. Cancel installation
>
> So what does the (ruby) vs. (mswin32) tags mean?  Of course this is
> for win32--it's a win32 extension.

In this particular case you want #1. :)

It simply the way I happened to tag the gem when I first built them.
The Win32Utils unofficial rule now is "ruby" either means it's pure
Ruby or ships with a prebuilt binary if it's a C extension, while
"mswin32" means you build from source. It wasn't always this way, so
every once in a while you'll see some inconsistency (#4) in this case.
I think we'll have a better way of tagging these in Rubygems 0.9.5.

Anyway, as a general rule, you want the latest and greatest.

What I would really like is a hook in RubyForge itself that removes
the gem from the index if I mark a given release as 'hidden' so that
the older gems don't show up in the list of choices.

Regards,

Dan