From: Space Ship Traveller <space.ship.traveller@...>
Date: 2009-09-03T14:34:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Updating gems for ruby 1.9

Thats a good reason :) maybe?

I can understand why it is that way.

Thanks for the clarification I appreciate your knowledge.
Samuel

On 3/09/2009, at 4:56 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:

> On Sep 2, 2009, at 20:32, Space Ship Traveller wrote:
>> On 1/09/2009, at 11:06 AM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:10, Space Ship Traveller wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to install a gem for all versions of ruby?
>>>
>>> Not by default.
>>>
>>> You can set GEM_HOME and GEM_PATH to force RubyGems to use a  
>>> common path.  See gem help env.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why was this decision made? It seems like it  
>> would be easier to have a combined directory for 1.8 and 1.9?
>
> C extensions can only be linked against one version.
>