From: Alan Chen <alan@...>
Date: 2002-01-14T08:16:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 06:28:14AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <20020113213008.A6449@prism.localnet>,
> Massimiliano Mirra  <list@chromatic-harp.com> wrote:
> >Currently, rpkg builds packets by tar'ring and gzip'ping the source
> >directories through GNU tar.
> >
> >However it aims to be entirely Ruby-based or at least platform
> >independent out of the box.  If you have any though or warning on the
> >following subjects, I'd like to hear them:
> >
> >- is GNU tar a reasonable external requirement for this, i.e. is it
> >easily available on every platform that Ruby runs on or even
> >widespread enough that it is already installed?
> 
> Unfortunately, it's not gonna generally be available on Windows unless 
> you've installed the Cygwin tools.  And since we're moving away from 
> cygwin, you have to assume that people will not have installed tar on 
> Windows.

Actually many compression tools will open a gnu tar, win-zip for example
happily works with tar.gz files.

-- 
Alan Chen
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