Hey Mark,<div><br></div><div>I agree with Matt that macruby_deploy needs work in this area, and any effort you can contribute (or experience that you have gained from working on your gem plugin) would be greatly appreciated. That said, I think a gem plugin is a separate (and, IMHO at least, as valuable) issue.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So then, my personal view on the options you outlined:</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
- A gemspec property (e.g. spec.compile_for_macruby = true)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This seems more apt of an addition for MacRuby specifically. Unfortunately, it seems that extraneous gemspec properties are not ignored, but if they were, this would be a prime candidate for an option that is only used by macgem. Now that I&#39;m thinking about it, though, I wonder why we wouldn&#39;t just have MacGem compile all gems?</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5">- A gem command:<br>  gem compile nokogiri<br>  gem compile —remove-original-files nokogiri<br>
      • I can’t remove the original *.rb files and leave *.rbo files by default because of how rubygems identifies gems (unless I modify gemspec files)<br>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This seems most in keeping with how other gem extensions work. I don&#39;t think removing original files is all that important though, since keeping them around is also useful for debugging gems.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="h5">&gt;&gt; - A gem install option<br>
&gt;&gt;   gem install —compile nokogiri<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Maybe this is better handled with an option in .gemrc? or an environment variable?</div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;m afraid I&#39;m a bit too swamped at the moment to lend a hand directly, but I like the direction you&#39;re going, and I&#39;ll definitely keep an eye on where this is going.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Josh </div></div></div>