JRuby 1.7 and Fedora

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 12.9.2012 09:54, Charles Oliver Nutter napsal(a):
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Vít Ondruch <vondruch at redhat.com> wrote:
>> I think, that for the platform specific bits, we should use subpackages and
>> somehow follow the RubyGems conventions, i.e. use -java for JRuby packages.
>> This is clear. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to distinguish between C
>> extensions for MRI and Rubinius for example (neither I really explored, what
>> are the possibilities, but I am afraid, that it will not be that easy :/).
> My understanding is that the *sources* of the extensions should be the
> same for both MRI and Rubinius, but the *binaries* are definitely
> different. For example, a number of things MRI defines as macros
> directly into MRI-specific struct layout are actually functions in
> Rubinius...so an extension build for one definitely will not work on
> the other.

Exactly.

What I am afraid that RubyGems can't distinguish between gems for 
Rubinius and MRI as it can't differentiate between binary gems built for 
MRI 1.8 or MRI 1.9. For example, for therubyracer gem [1], you can get 
prebuilt gems, but I doubt they can work for Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 as well. 
There are "fat binary" gems for Windows (e.g. nokogiri), but that is 
more or less workaround, which doesn't scale. RubyGems should support 
more than platform to choose the correct gem version.

Vit



[1] https://rubygems.org/gems/therubyracer


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