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I think the more interesting question is what to do about extensions
(ie. not pure Ruby gems that contain C code). Last time I looked
JRuby was pretty incompatible; in fact for libguestfs we recommend
that people use the *Java* bindings with JRuby ...
Rich.
JRuby and Ruby won't share extensions. Extensions for Ruby will live in
%{_libdir}/gems/ruby, while extensions for JRuby will in %{_datadir}/gems/jruby (although
we decided not to actually ship any JRuby extension Gems for F19 as we want to take more
time to figure out the guidelines specifics around it).
JRuby is pretty incompatible with C extensions. In fact, guys from upstream told me that
they may even completely drop support for C extensions, as its very hard to maintain and
doesn't really bring significant benefits. That's why we don't want to do it
in Fedora.
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