From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-12-22T05:40:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter



On Dec 21, 1:08 pm, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nut...@sun.com>
wrote:
> 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/a6...
> > 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...

I thought JRuby used FFI. No? If not, it should just be matter of
porting the code. But if so, you still have two third party
dependencies - FFI and zlib.dll.

Regards,

Dan