From: Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@...>
Date: 2002-01-15T06:03:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Best way for platf. independent compression?

* Alan Chen (alan@digikata.com) wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 08:48:25AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> > I just tend to think it's a good idea if we make the package manager pure 
> > Ruby so we dont' have any outside dependencies.  Speed is not an issue 
> > for this particular application.  How good does the compression have to be 
> > for this?  Speed isn't really an issue in this case either.

A custom file format is just asking for trouble imo.  Keep it simple and
let existing tools do what they're good at.

> Agreed. But, I also think that using some existing compression file
> format would be advisable.

Including an implimentation of tar and gzip doesn't seem beyond the
realms of possibility for Win32 systems.

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