From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-03-17T10:53:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.2.0


On Mar 16, 2004, at 7:54 PM, Florian Gross wrote:

> 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.)
>


Not to speak for everyone, but I've been thinking the exact same thing 
lately.  This is on the top of our minds, so it should be one of the 
next features we see implemented.

Chad