From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T00:56:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23968] Re: RubyGems Discussion

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ned Konz wrote:

> 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.
> 
Ok, but how can this be used with Ryan's scheme with metadata? Is there
some way you can attach info to zip archive which winzip et al will not
look at?

> 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).
> 
Sounds reasonable.

/Robert