From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2009-10-07T14:14:21+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGems woes

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:46 AM, Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@gmail.com> wrote:
> You could create an executable called
> install_gem_xxx_platform_dependencies
>
> then users have to do
>
> $ gem install gem1
> $ install_gem_gem1_platform_dependencies # installs more gems for you

Sorry, but this strikes me as pretty gross :(

> You might be able to create different version of the same gem, that
> target different platforms, like
> gem1-mswin32-60 and gem1-jruby-60
> and have different dependencies listed in each.  correct me if I'm wrong
> but I think this still would not allow for gem1-mswin32-60 to install
> different gems based on the ruby version [i.e. different for 1.8 and
> 1.9].

This and the other workarounds also seem pretty gross...I feel like
RubyGems should be doing this for you. And the problem is just going
to get worse as we have more Ruby impls coming online.

- Charlie