From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2001-11-01T18:25:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:24070] Re: RubyGems Discussion

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Michael Neumann wrote:

> > 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. 
> 
It doesn't; I was to deep down in my own thoughts...

A potential drawback with using an established zip/tar.gz format is that
people might make gems without metadata since they've heard/read that
"Ruby's gems files are ordinary zip files". But it might only be a minor
problem...

/Robert