Re: Gem::Platform

On 12/8/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain-48TerJ1FxhPk1uMJSBkQmQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently we have:
>
> module Platform
>    RUBY = 'ruby'
>    WIN32 = 'mswin32'
>    LINUX_586 = 'i586-linux'
>    DARWIN = 'powerpc-darwin'
>    CURRENT = 'current'
> end
>
> And here's what today's source index has:
>
> require 'rubygems/source_info_cache'
> gems = Gem::SourceInfoCache.cache_data['http://
> gems.rubyforge.org'].source_index.latest_specs
>
> counts = Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = 0 }
> gems.each { |_,g| counts[g.platform] += 1 }
> puts counts.sort_by { |pl,c| c }.map { |pl,c| "\t#{c}\t#{pl}" }.join
> ("\n")
>
>          1       powerpc-darwin
>          1       i686-darwin8.4.1
>          1       windows
>          1       win32-1.8.2-VC7
>          3       i686-linux
>          3       i586-linux
>          5       i386-mswin32
>          22      mswin32
>          29
>          1108    ruby
>
> mswin32 has been outrageously successful, but linux and darwin less-so.
>
> I think we'll need a DARWIN_INTEL and DARWIN_UNIVERSAL, a more-
> generic linux, and ...?
>

Hi.  This is exactly why we created tattle
(http://rubyforge.org/projects/tattle).  I just released a first
version of the gem so people could try it out.  Bruce is going to make
some UI changes to the report (http://tattle.rubygarden.org) hopefully
today.  We also forgot to support HTTP proxies, so we'll need to fix
that.  Give it a go by doing:

sudo gem install tattle
tattle


Chad