From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T03:08:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter

rogerdpack wrote:
>> I've put in a feature request [2] but I'd like to see it expedited. In
>> order to expedite this, I'm offering $100 to anyone who can implement
>> it. In order to qualify for the bounty, your Zlib::GzipWriter class
>> must meet the following criteria:
> That would indeed be convenient.
> Would be nice to someday no longer have the dependency of rubygems on
> zlib.
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/a6966f6fc1424f61
> Then there'd be one less setup hurdle for ruby.
> I'm a watcher for now though :)

Of course you could use JRuby, which doesn't have such issues with zlib 
and Windows...

- Charlie