From: "Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido" Date: 2008-04-07T22:33:15+09:00 Subject: Re: gem build documentation for new gems? On 4/6/08, Phillip Gawlowski wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote: > | > | And it should be documented. > | > | > | This is outdated: > | http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#page85 > | > | Look at platform: > | http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/20#platform > | > | it's even given me an example with Gem::Platform::Win32 > > Welcome to the world of Open Source Software, where ideology replaces > good practices, source code is called documentation, and praise be unto > UNIX, the Best Thing Evar to come out of Bell Labs, and the command line > is its messiah. > > Bitter? Me? Never... Hahahaha Yeah, there are some people like that writing open source software. Fortunately it doesn't happen everywhere. OpenBSD for example, they do not add any feature if it is not documented. I have checked the page again, it was generated in 2005. This is unacceptable. Being gratis or open source is not an excuse. > > *goes back finding out how to cross-compile Ruby extensions for MinGW-Ruby* > Why not compile natively on Windows? -- Gerardo Santana