From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-31T02:14:43+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems 1.3.1

Luis Lavena wrote:
> As your point may be valid, introducing a new command not only
> requires testing but is too major to be something just for a y.z point
> release.
> 
> I believe the priorities when installing gems should be 'platform-
> specific-one' and then 'ruby', contrary to what we have now (ruby,
> then-your-platform).

*Strongly* agree...and I also believe any gem that depends on C 
extensions which only work on MRI should not be the default "ruby" 
platform, since they obviously don't work everywhere. Historical 
reasons, I know...but we have to field at least a couple questions a 
week from people accidentally trying to install a C extension on JRuby.

- Charlie