From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-12-07T17:54:45+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: rake-compiler 0.2.1



On Nov 30, 10:32 am, "Luis Lavena" <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Rubysts:
>
> I'll like to introduce you rake-compiler gem version 0.2.1
>
> rake-compiler aims to help Gem developers while dealing with Ruby C
> extensions, simplifying the code and reducing the duplication.
>
> It follows *convention over configuration* and set an standardized
> structure to build and package C extensions in your gems.
>
> This is the result of experiences dealing with several Gems that
> required native extensions across platforms and different user
> configurations where details like portability and clarity of code were
> lacking.
>
> http://github.com/luislavena/rake-compiler/tree/master
>
> == Current functionality:
>
> * One-liner to be able to compile extensions using Rake
> * One-liner to be able to package native extensions into Gems.
>
> * 3 Lines of code to be able to cross compile extensions for Windows
> from Linux or OSX
> * Same 3 lines of code to be able to package those extensions into
> Gems for Windows.
>
> I know 3 lines sounds a lot... but compared to current alternatives
> (ala: none), 3 lines is cheap.
>
> == How to get it
>
> Right now it's only available at github:
>
>   gem install luislavena-rake-compiler --sourcehttp://gems.github.com
>
> Soon at rubyforge, both will be keep on sync.
>
> == Integration
>
> You can use any gem packaging and releasing tool with rake-compiler
> (Hoe, Echoe, MrBones, etc). It doesn't interfere as long you can
> provide a Gem::Specification to hook into the native gems generation.
>
> == Target audience
>
> rake-compiler is not only to generate gems for Windows. Under certain
> circumstances users request binary gems for Linux since their
> production servers lack the build tools available under development
> environments. This solution ease the path on all these fields.
>
> == Feedback
>
> While there is no project page for it (yet), I encourage users send
> their feedback to Ruby Installer development mailing list.
>
> rake-compiler is a side project of One-Click Installer and attempts
> reduce the gap between users across platforms.
>
> == Thanks
>
> Several users contributed to make this project a reality, which includes:
>
> * Aaron Patterson from nokogiri for the simplified cross compile ruby
> tasks that inspired the ones implemented in this project
> * Dan Kubb from DataMapper and DataObjects for care about support of
> Windows users.
> * Jonathan Stott from DataMapper and DataObjects for hacking in cross
> compilation into DO and playing with the workflow
>
> Thanks to everyone for their support and feedback during the
> development of this project!

I look forward to trying this out. Thanks Luis!

T.