From: Laurent Sansonetti <laurent.sansonetti@...>
Date: 2007-11-08T01:59:02+09:00
Subject: Re: OS X gems do not appear in install list (Leopard)

On Nov 7, 2007 11:56 AM, Laurent Sansonetti
<laurent.sansonetti@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 7:28 AM, Julian Raschke <julianraschke@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I am struggling to release an OS X gem (for which I wanted to post the
> > ANN days ago :(). I actually think I released it, but none of the OS X
> > versions of my gem (gosu) show up when I run 'sudo gem install gosu'
> > on vanilla Leopard; it only presents the 'win32' versions.
> >
> > All previous versions had a platform of 'universal-darwin8.0' in the
> > spec, so I thought I'd re-upload the latest gem with 'universal-
> > darwin9.0', which didn't help any. I can see all gems on rubyforge's
> > gem file list, I can download and install them, they just don't show
> > up in the install list.
> >
> > Unfortunately the docs for RubyGems are so sketchy that I guessed a
> > lot of things (e.g. the platform string). Is there anything I'm
> > missing? Is Leopard's gem broken and can it be updated?
> >
>
> I reproduce the problem:
>
> $ sudo gem install gosu
> Password:
> Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
> Select which gem to install for your platform (universal-darwin9.0)
>  1. gosu 0.7.7 (mswin32)
>  2. gosu 0.7.6.1 (mswin32)
>  3. gosu 0.7.6 (mswin32)
>  4. gosu 0.7.5.1 (mswin32)
>  5. Skip this gem
>  6. Cancel installation
>
> Only mswin32 versions are shown. I don't know why, but I don't think
> it is a problem with the Leopard installation of RubyGems. You should
> definitely move the discussion to the RubyGems list.
>

Maybe it is http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/rubygems-developers/2007-November/003224.html

Laurent