How to handle OS-specific issues in a gem or ruby engine

[reedloden]

We need a way to track operating system specific issues affecting a gem or ruby engine.

Here's one example:

• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/107478
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/375
• https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9709

While it affects cross-platform code, seems to only be exploitable on mingw32

Separately, looks like at least one Ruby developer disputes that this a security issue, so there's that to deal with as well.

Perhaps add an os field to the YAML format?

[reedloden]

or we could just change platform to be what rubygems actually considers platforms... java, x86-mingw32, x64-mingw32, linux, mswin, etc.

We'll change all jruby uses to java. I think that's the only case where we use platform right now.

The default platform is ruby, so we'll not require it in that case.