From: ts_news1@...
Date: 2005-08-29T23:26:22+09:00
Subject: Re: newbie trying to zip all .dat files in directory

Wilson Bilkovich wote:
> I was thinking about my message, and realized I had perhaps come
> across as harsh on RubyZip.  I wouldn't want the author to read my
> post and come slash my tires or anything.

I wouldn't think of it. besides I don't know where you live :-)

> I just meant that it is (in its own words, as well) a direct port of
> the Java zip library.
> As such, it's very much not idiomatic Ruby.  I just wanted to make
> sure you realized that as you studied it.  Don't try to make your code
> look like this, unless that makes you happy.

It is certainly not a direct port, as I have never seen the source code
to java's ZipFile/ZipInputStream. I wrote rubyzip to learn ruby and I
have tried to make it ruby-like. For instance the stream-objects are
IO-like and there is an API that let you access the contents of a zip
file with an interface similar to that provided by ruby's File and Dir
classes
(http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/classes/Zip/ZipFileSystem.html). The
idea is of course to minimize the amount of API you have to learn. I've
never used rubyzip myself, it's just a pet project for playing with
ruby. If you have suggestions for (API) improvements I'd be happy to
hear about them.

> Speaking of which.. does anyone else know what's up with the
> copy_stream problem I ran into on my first try?  I've never used that
> method before, so I'm not sure exactly how it should work.

0.5.9 is broken - unfortunately I released it just before I went on
vacation. 0.5.10 will be released shortly, until then 0.5.8 works.

br,

Thomas