From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2008-01-04T23:44:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Get your hands dirty: Help bootstrap Ruby on Windows.

7za.exe from the 7z distribution is both open source, and really small.

Whilst it may not be a 'normal' tool, it very happily deals with all  
of these issues in a single app, and common command line interface.

It's also pretty swift.

On 4 Jan 2008, at 10:30, Michal Suchanek wrote:

> On 04/01/2008, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 4, 2008 5:34 AM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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 :-)
>>
>> .gz and .tar.gz files aren't hard to deal with since a working Ruby
>> 1.8.5 is a prerequisite. Look at minitar, and the zlib library is  
>> part
>> of a working Ruby 1.8.5 install.
>>
> Yes, it just does not handle bzip2 which is used to compress the mingw
> base that contains tar.
>
> So you still need bzip2, and you can as well include a full
> tar/gzip/bzibp2 suite then as it will probably make the decomression
> somewhat faster and less memory intensive. It might waste a bit of
> space as the minitar source would probably compress a few kilobytes
> smaller than the tar binary. Didn't do any benchmarks, though.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michal
>