From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2004-03-16T13:57:56+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0


On Mar 15, 2004, at 11:39 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:

> I've yet to try it, but I did glance at the docs today and it does look
> ery nice.

Please try it and give us your feedback...would welcome all help (and 
input)
we can get!

>
> So I gather from the comment above about binary libraries there is no 
> way
> yet to handle gems which have extensions (C code)?  Any idea when we'll
> see this?

Well, you can actually build a gem that contains a binary extension, 
but you
need to mark it as platform specific (i.e. it _can_ contain .so files). 
  We
are trying to work out the building from source...so the gem contains 
the
c/c++/ruby code and it is downloaded, extracted, built and deployed. 
That is
a target for the next release (or the one after).

>
> Will we be seeing RubyGems in 1.8.2?

That is up to Matz and the Ruby community.  We would like to see it in
the Ruby distro, obviously, but there are still things to flush out 
prior
to that.

>
> Phil