----- Original Message -----
> Since limited interpreter independence is a goal of the new guideline
> (limited to rubygems), there needs to be more work done ironing out a
> few
> details of that:
>
> * It seems that the ruby(abi) Provides is only in ruby-libs; not in
> jruby{,-libs}. That means that an end user wanting to use jruby and
> having
> only rubygems installed still needs to have ruby-libs installed
> (because
> of the dep on ruby(abi).) Is this intentional?
> * There needs to be more information about jruby and other alternate
> interpreters. In particular, the path macros for the jruby non-gem
> packages need to be added.
> * I took a guess that non-gem packages should have separate
> subpackages for each interpreter since the thought is that rubygems
> can
> handle multiple interpreters but non-gem requires cannot. Further,
> I guessed that they should be named INTERPRETER-module, for
> instance,
> jruby-rpm. The answer to whether jruby should Provide ruby(abi)
> is no,
> we also need to specify what non-gem packages for other packages
> should
> require (for instance, jruby(abi) = %{jruby_abi}). If the answer
> is yes,
> we may still need to add new Requires for non-gem packages so that
> they
> are only associated with the correct interpreter (however, we might
> not
> need to have matching Provides... we might be able to just use
> package
> name for this)
>
> -Toshio
>
Hi Toshio,
I don't want to double my response, so I will just point to the FPC ticket, where I answered these questions/concerns, so that everyone can have a look at it.
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/134#comment:43
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Regards,
Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.
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