From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T00:49:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23965] Re: RubyGems Discussion

On Wednesday 31 October 2001 07:35 am, Robert Feldt wrote:
> If its done on a per-file basis I would again like to propose LZO as in
> the CompressionR extension. It should be faster than zlib at
> decompression even though slightly worse compression ratio.

The problem with this is that you lose compatibility with existing archiving 
tools.

I'd recommend going with, say, Zip so that even if something in the RubyGem 
system breaks you can still manually install it (if possible).

Many people, for instance, use WinZip to view/operate on .jar files.

And I'd build in zlib into Ruby. Not only for archives, but for compressed 
network protocols as well (many servers will send gzip if you tell them you 
can accept it).

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Ned Konz
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