From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T11:48:50+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-ffi] Re: [ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.0

Sean O'Halpin wrote:
> Ouch! Didn't try installing it as a gem in JRuby.
> 
> Is it possible to specify different gem dependencies by platform?

No, it's not. RubyGems dependency mechanism is pretty simplistic. I 
think the only option with current RubyGems would be to have a dummy FFI 
gem.

Granted, I'd love to see RubyGems handle this better; we get people 
asking us about it every other day.

- Charlie