From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T20:43:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Get your hands dirty: Help bootstrap Ruby on Windows.

On 04/01/2008, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
> On 04/01/2008, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 4 ene, 03:03, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zn...@cesmail.net> wrote:
> > > Luis Lavena wrote:
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > > To bootstrap and use this project, you need:
> > > > - Ruby 1.8.5 or greater
> > > > - Rake 0.7.3 or greater
> > > > - Tar [1] and Unzip [2] binary packages from GnuWin32
> > >
> > > Aren't they in MSys?
> > >
> >
> > Chicken-egg situation:
> >
> > They are inside the compressed tar.gz and tar.bz2 files... how I'm
> > supposed to get them if I don't decompress them first? :-D
> >
> > So: if someone have a pure-ruby (with aditional gem or extension) that
> > allow us extract content from:
> >
> > - .zip (deflate) files
> > - .gz (of .tar.gz) files
> > - .bz2 (of .tar.bz2) files
> >
> > All without these dependencies, feel free to modify rake/
> > extracttask :-)
> >
> If youcan afford relying on ruby stdlib, there is zlib which can do
> deflate and gunzip.
>
> There is minitar hosted on rubyforge under ruwiki (does not work on
> unseekable files like stdin but works on gzipped files by using zlib).
> There is rubyzip (untested, uses zlib for compression). bzip2 remains
> to be solved but hopefully the basic stuff can be obtained as gzipped
> archives.
>
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=84
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=909

And you can get bzip2 at
http://www.bzip.org/1.0.4/bzip2-104-x86-win32.exe - plain win32
executable.

Thanks

Michal