Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
>> a standard way so that a binary-gem builder can specify a range of 
>> contribute different platforms.
> This sounds like a suggestion for a Ruby extension compile farm. That's
> an idea I could seriously get behind.

That's exactly what I had in mind. If the farm had at least one of every 
important platform that's out there, including all of the stupid Windows 
flavors, that would make life so much easier. And I was really serious 
about generating and distributing gems with multiple binaries, one of 
which gets chosen and installed on each target machine. I'm willing to 
contribute bandwidth and security services for an effort like this.

It's pretty nasty for me as an extension developer to deal with all of 
this garbage. But that's nothing compared to what we are putting our 
users through. This is something that really needs a solution.

And as far as production servers are concerned, even Linux ones, almost 
every enterprise shop I have ever worked with requires that these 
machines be built without compilers, and not only for the security risk. 
You simply can't manage application software on a few hundred machines 
if each one of them has to compile its own binaries.

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