On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:54:00 +0900, Lothar Scholz
<mailinglists / scriptolutions.com> wrote:

> CH> The way I want to address this problem is to include RubyGems in the
> CH> installer, and then encourage package authors to release their packages in
> CH> RubyGems format. Then getting ruby-postgres installed on your system would
> CH> be as simple as running the command "gem install ruby-postgres".
> 
> But this does still not help on binary extensions.

Sure it would, if the package authors provide both source and
precompiled, "binary" gems for their packages. I don't know what
specific issues come into play with the ruby-postgres package, but
I've been experimenting with this in the alpha releases of FXRuby 1.2
and it seems to be working well.