Hi Dan,
Implementing an mkmf replacement was tried a while ago:http://rubyforge.org/projects/mkmf2/ But it never caught on. But gems are more pervasive now, so maybe if it was gemified, we could take another look. However, I don't think it was ever trying to be a distutils replacement.
Yeah, I had hopes that mkmf2 would solve the problem, but it didn't So although it was an improvement, it didn't solve the fundamental problem, and thus wasn't enough of an improvement.
Porting distutils may be the answer, though. You volunteering? ;)
With the amount of time I've spent figuring out how to compile Ruby c extensions on C, I should have just started with that :)
As much as it would be interesting, I'm not volunteering. libxml-ruby, libxslt-ruby and ruby-prof are taking all my open source cycles at the moment.
Charlie
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