Is the rake-compiler gem needed for runtime? about ruby-pg HOT 5 CLOSED

Original comment by eolamey (Bitbucket: eolamey, GitHub: eolamey).

I just realized this is a stupid question :) It actually only makes sense for packagers such as myself. What I want to do is distribute a RPM with the gem already compiled, so I need to have rake-compiler on the machine that produces the RPM, but my users won't. I need to remove the runtime dependency for them though, which might be a problem...

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Original comment by Michael Granger (Bitbucket: ged, GitHub: ged).

Exactly right.

I'm not sure what the resolution is for packagers like yourself, but people who wish to install the gem from source will definitely need rake-compiler installed before they do so.

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Original comment by eolamey (Bitbucket: eolamey, GitHub: eolamey).

Michael,

Thank you for your answer, and sorry for taking up your time with silly tickets.
I solved the issue by packaging rake-compiler and added it as a build dependency for the RPM itself, but removed the dependency from the gem specification, once installed (a bit hacky, but I don't see any other solution).
If you ever need it, RPM packages can be found at http://pakk.96b.it/repositories/

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Original comment by Michael Granger (Bitbucket: ged, GitHub: ged).

Great! And don't worry about the ticket. I'm happy to help out packagers if I can.

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Original comment by Michael Granger (Bitbucket: ged, GitHub: ged).

Made rake-compiler a dev dependency. Thanks to eolamey@bitbucket and Jeremy Evans for pointing out that it isn't needed for gem installation. (Fixes #93)

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