From: bwv549 <jtprince@...>
Date: 2008-09-16T04:27:48+09:00
Subject: Re: how to stream or write data into a tar.gz file as if the data 	were from files?

> So why then do you say "without ever first writing out files"?

I'm just trying to show that if I can stream out a tar file, then I
can at least pipe it into gzip (on many OS's).  So, I'm really stuck
at making a tar file without actually having to write files to disk
first.

> And there is zlib which allows to read and write GZip streams.  So, if
> ruby-tar allows to write into any stream you got your solution.

I looked at ruby-tar (on your suggestion) but ruby-tar turns out to
not have any write capabilities.

So, I'm still looking deeper into archive-tar-minitar.  I also found
'tarruby' (bindings to the C libtar library) in rubyforge but it seems
more difficult to hack into than minitar.

As pointed out, the difficulty here has been narrowed down to writing
tar files without having to write files out to disk first.

Sincere thanks for the suggestions.