From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T17:25:20+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-ffi] Re: [ANN] ffi-ncurses version 0.3.0

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Shame. I'll document this way to install ffi-ncurses for the moment:

$ jruby -S gem install ffi-ncurses  --ignore-dependencies

Regards,
Sean