洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
@hongminhee@hollo.social · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

By the way, is Ruby still not offering prebuilt binary distributions for C extension packages? 🤔

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Shugo Maeda
@shugo@ruby.social · Reply to 洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:

@hongminhee Some gems provide prebuilt binaries for Windows, known as fat gems, but there isn't an officially provided mechanism for binary packages. Here's a recent discussion on the topic: github.com/orgs/rubygems/discu

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[Proposal] Improved support for binary gems · rubygems · Discussion #8645

I published a post outlining some goals for improved precompiled gem support that has received some feedback. The high-level goal is to introduce support for something like python's "wheel", where ...