From: Florian Gross <flgr@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T09:54:32+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0

Richard Kilmer wrote:

> 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.

I'd like to ask for having both: A choice to install precompiled
binaries for whatever OS you're using (if they're available) and 
building them on by itself. I would like it to try to build it from 
sources at first and then try using a precompiled binary as a fallback. 
(If no compiler is available or compiling fails for whatever reason.)

That would make all this even more of the killer application it's
already starting to be. :)

Thanks for developing this and listening to feedback!

Regards,
Florian Gross