> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Daniel Berger > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Rubygems-developers] Question on platform, x64
<snip> > Hm, I noticed the Java gems come out as "universal-java-xxx". > That gives me an idea. > > How about this - we add Gem::Specification#universal. It > could be false by default, but if set to true it would result > in a gem tagged as universal. So, instead of > "mygem-1.0.0-x86-linux.gem" it would be > "mygem-1.0.0-universal-linux.gem". > > Folks on a Linux platform who do "gem install my-gem" would > get the architecture specific gem if there is one. If there > isn't one, it would fall back to the "universal" gem for that > platform. If there isn't a universal gem, then fall back to > the standard gem. > > Does that seem reasonable? We could instead use "generic" if we wanted to avoid any confusion with Jruby. Regards, Dan _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
