Re: gem build documentation for new gems?

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Gerardo Santana Gómez Garrido wrote:

| Well, Luis Lavena's work is promising. It's time for extension
| developers to try this environment and make the changes needed. After
| that, anybody would be able to automatically download and build
| extensions.

It indeed is. However, the best solution would be to offer an SDKish
package for developers, and a RREish (Ruby Runtime Environment :P) at
the same time. The former for developers, and the latter for end-users.

However, this distinction is a bit blurry, with Ruby not compiling to
byte-code/machine code, and not needing a compiler environment as Java does.

However, I'm of the opinion that nobody who doesn't want to, shouldn't
*have to* compile extensions.

And to handle these case, it is necessary to define a way to handle
header files and source files on the one hand, and to handle "just" the
extensions in a neat way (integrated to RubyGems would be best.
Something like a #has_gcc_compiler? method.

*shrugs*

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