Rubygem version restriction doesn't allow for multiple platforms

[djberg96]

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Just tinkering with rubygem packages on github recently because why not. However, I noticed something.

In the standard rubygems server you are allowed to have multiple platforms for the same gem version. For example, if you gem search -r sys-uptime you will see sys-uptime (0.7.6 ruby universal-mingw32), one for Windows (universal-mingw32) and one for everything else (ruby), because they have slightly different dependencies but they are both the same version (0.7.6).

It appears that github does NOT allow that, and will complain that a "version already exists" if I try to upload a Windows-specific version of the gem. I would like to be able to put up both.

[wwahammy]

I'm glad someone else noticed this. This is a real pain.

[mcorino]

Just encountered this problem too. Is this going to be fixed anytime soon? Without proper support for multiple platforms for (mostly binary) gems this registry is pretty useless for me.

[bcdanieldickison]

Oof, I just ran head-first into this issue today. Would be great to see this fixed.

[marstaik]

Hey, this needs a big bump. This seems like a fatal flaw, and the workarounds are not pretty.