Distribute pre-compiled nio4r

[HoneyryderChuck]

nokogiri is about to distribute its first version not requiring compilation on install. From what I gathered, the bulk of the work is being handled by rake-compiler-dock, while additional "magic" is done to handle the darwin/alpine case.

How hard would it be to integrate it in nio4r? I'm asking because it's a direct rails/puma dependency, whose compilation times are noticeable on install time, and influences the size of docker images, which have to have the gcc "toolchain" available.

[ioquatix]

I would be happy to work towards this. I'm not sure what the final solution looks like, as I'm trying to avoid using rake, but I'd be happy to explore options.

[HoneyryderChuck]

I'm trying to avoid using rake...

What's the issue with rake you're trying to avoid? What's the alternative? AFAICT nio4r already uses rake-compiler for the java builds, and I personally like the convenience of rake release, for instance.