From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T17:35:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24060] Re: RubyGems Discussion

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Ned Konz wrote:

> Oh yeah, of course you can also put arbitrary stuff at the beginning of a zip 
> archive, since they have the index at the end. This is how self-extracting 
> zips work. Roughly you could do:
> 
> Ruby program
> __END__
> member (signature, header, data)
> member (signature, header,data)
> ..
> index (signature, data)
> 
Now we're talking! This sounds great. We can have gems files be both valid
Ruby programs and valid zip files.

/Robert