From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T01:19:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23978] Re: RubyGems Discussion

Robert Feldt wrote:
> > 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?

Why does it matter that winzip can look at the meta data?
For example *BSD binary packages contain meta data files named 
+CONTENTS +COMMENT +DESC +BUILD_INFO etc. inside a .tar.gz file. 

Regards,

  Michael

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