From: Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@...>
Date: 2011-05-24T03:10:32+09:00
Subject: Re: BARRIER - json, thin, eventmachine - do not install on windows

Summarizing:

[...]
> > The "thin" / "eventmachine" issue is trivial:
>
> >  * thin should require only "eventmachine" versions which have native
> > gems available.
>
> > The "json" issue:
>
> > The author
> >  * should provide native gems, or
> >  * should provide "json_pure" as a pseudo-native-gem for windows (or
> > as a general fallback)
[...]

> > The "gem" issue:
>
> > The gem team should provide a mechanism for "fallbacks", in order to
> > ensure that cases like "json" can be resolved immediately without user
> > interventions (instead of aborting the gem installation sequence which
> > is triggered by a gem with dependencies).
[...]

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