gear⚙

gear is a modular native extension dependency builder for Ruby

Basically formatted "package" like build scrips called "gears" are used to compile native libraries ON the platform where a bundle is being installed and packages said dependencies within the gems. Or at least that was the idea. In the end it would take a massive ammount of effort to try and match a similar system like, say, homebrew.

Initially the idea was to call gear from extconf.rb in a native extension and build any requirements on-demand when they are not found on the system. Unfortunately this is immensely clumsy and is officially frowned upon. Gear does work for compiling a set of dependencies but the current implementation is clumsy. In the future, if there is a demand, gear development will resume. If you are someone who would like to adopt the project please contact @Kagetsuki on github.

DO NOT RELY ON THIS. Currently gear should not be considered stable or fully usable.

If you have an idea and can write some specs for it then it's highly likely I'll accept a merge request and push a new gem version for you.

GPLv3