From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-12-27T11:37:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Pure Ruby Zlib::GzipWriter



On Dec 26, 8:05 pm, Roger Pack <rogerpack2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What's my motivation? Mainly MS Windows. I run a hand built version of
> > Ruby, and getting the zlib wrapper to build with MS VC++ is such a
> > colossal PITA that I'd like to avoid it completely. Beyond that,
> > however, is that it eliminates a third party dependency (zlib) and
> > gives me the ability to create gems. At the moment I can only read
> > them.
>
> One thing I use to help me compile on doze is Lavena's rubyinstaller
> [I'm sure you've seen it..].
> Anyway I'll match $50 :)

Excellent Roger, thank you.

By the way, MS Windows is not the only reason removing the external
dependency on zlib would be a good thing:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=23354&group_id=126&atid=575

Regards,

Dan