From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-30T11:52:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23796] Re: RubyGems Status (was: Re: Someinspirations from REBOL)

"Rich Kilmer" <rich@infoether.com> writes:

> What if the file format was a Ruby document like...
> 
>   require "rubygems" #or whatever ;)
>   include Gem unless kind_of? Gem
> 
>   begin_gem "RichsCoolGem"
>   author="Rich Kilmer"
>   version="1.1.3"
>   requires="RyansCoolGem,0.0.2"
>   requires="RobertsCoolGem,2.0.0"
>   signature="...secure hash/signed..."
>   public_key="...public key..."
>   compression="LZO"
>   encoding="BASE64"
>   executable="myFile1.rb"
> 
>   [FILE=>"myFile1.rb", MIME_TYPE=>"text/ruby", VERSION=>"1.1.1"] = <<_FILE
>   ...BASE64 ENCODED, LZO COMPRESSED FILE...
>   _FILE
>   [FILE=>"myFile2.rb", VERSION=>"1.0.2", COMPRESSION=>"ZLIB"] = <<_FILE
>   ...BASE64 ENCODED, ZLIB COMPRESSED FILE...
>   _FILE
> 
> 
>   end_gem

Or something like:

  g = Gem.new do

     author       "Rich Kilmer"
     version      "1.1.3"
     requires     "RyansCoolGem,0.0.2"
     requires     "RobertsCoolGem,2.0.0"
     signature    "...secure hash/signed..."
     public_key   "...public key..."
     compression  "LZO"
     encoding     Encoding::BASE64
     executable   "myFile1.rb"
  end

  g << GemContent.new("myFile1.rb", <<-_FILE1
                      :mime => "text/ruby",
                      :version => "1.1.1"])
       ...BASE64 ENCODED, LZO COMPRESSED FILE...
   _FILE1

  g << GemContent.new("myFile2.rb", <<-<FILE2,
                      :version => "1.0.2",
                      :compression => "ZLIB")
      ...BASE64 ENCODED, ZLIB COMPRESSED FILE...
   _FILE2



I like the fact that using separate objects for the file contents
gives me flexibility in the future to substitute network downloads and
the like.


Dave