On 06/11/2007, Luis Lavena <luislavena / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/5/07, Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner <ed.odanow / wonado.de> wrote:
> > Gregory Brown schrieb:
> > > There is always the option of having a 'core' gem server which hosts
> > > the bits that have been marooned from the stdlib, and maybe has a
> > > meta-gem that'd install all of them.
> >
> > Is't something like the following scenario possible (may be even now)?
> >
> > 1) I have a Ruby application inside a subdirectory "/myappl", which I will
> > deliver as a zip file (usually for Windows, but this shouldn't matter).
> >
>
> Yeah, you can do that.
>
It's easy to distribute pure ruby extensions this way. However, every
C extension that goes away from the stdlib makes distributing some
applications way harder. You simply cannot include the extension for
every possible platform.

Thanks

Michal