[ruby-core:30369] Re: [Feature #1478] Ruby archive

On 22 May 2010 18:40, Urabe Shyouhei wrote:
> Why to bother downloads? or: what is the purpose to archive ruby scripts?
Then, is any compression useful? (for ruby scripts I mean)

> I don't think downloading is the matter because once you download something you
> don't need to do that again. here'd be other things to focus; to actually
> require something. equiring a library happens every time you invoke a script
> so that should be worth optimizing.
>
Ok, sorry, I did not think to that anymore while writing.
Maybe libraries files should be merged in one file (or a few)/library, then?

On 22 May 2010 18:41, Evan Phoenix wrote:
> I have looked into this in the past and could not find any open source libraries for reading 7z or xz files. That is the biggest reason not to use them, we don't want to start this project off writing a container format.

Yes, unfortunately, p7zip is only a "quick port of 7z.exe and 7za.exe".

B.D.