On 7/22/04 12:49 PM, "richard lyman" <lymans / gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a question though - what about the list of Gems? Can the basic
> listing of remotely installable gems indicate the existance of a
> binary version? In other words, when I run the command:
> 
> gem list --remote
> 
> Can I get some indication of the existance (or non-existance) of the
> binary versions?

Yeah...we will work that out.  It will likely be listed as two gems (one
source, one binary), but the UI (and the list function) will perhaps
highlight the fact that the binary gem for your platform is available.
We'll figure it out so its simple :-)

> 
> I'm hoping to avoid useability problems when a package is listed in
> the GUI as 'installable', but it really isn't, since there's no binary
> version... I hope I'm making sense...

You are, and we agree...the goal is simplicity of use...hope we reach that
goal!

> 
> I want you guys to know that your work is really helping the
> distribution-ability of Ruby.

Thanks, and the main thing that will help is the whole community
contributing gems!!! So, code and distribute!!!

-rich