[ruby-core:30352] Re: [Feature #1478] Ruby archive

On May 20, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Nielsen wrote:

> OK Hiroshi, I read some of the comments earlier in the thread that I
> had missed before (looks like they were sent through RedMine)
> 
> One of my concerns with using jar files is it requires reading zip
> files which is not supported by the ruby stdlib.  I would like to have
> the format readable by at least back to 1.8.7 with minimal extra
> library requirements.  On old versions (like 1.8.7) it is probably
> acceptable to have some required extra libraries, but it would be best
> if we didn't have a dependency like rubyzip in new versions (1.9
> series) just to open the files, and I doubt rubyzip (or similar) will
> be included in stdlib anytime soon.

It's too early in the project to discount any ideas. Using zip has a number of upsides that we should explore. As for bundling rubyzip, thats really not an issues since this project is going to require modifying 1.8.7 anyway.

The situation can be mitigated by bundling a C zip reading library as well.

 - Evan

> 
> Does this concern make any sense to you?
> 
> -Jonathan Nielsen
> 
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