From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T08:13:26+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rubyzip 0.3.1


"Thomas Hurst" <tom.hurst@clara.net> wrote in message
news:20020126191659.GB72667@voi.aagh.net...
> * Daniel Berger (djberg96@hotmail.com) wrote:
>
> > Any chance we could put these types of modules under a common namespace?
> > Say, "Archive"?  Then we could have:
> >
> > Archive::Zlib
> > Archive::Zip
> > Archive::Tar
> > Archive::Bzip2
>
> This is what I'm doing.
>
> Archive::Tar::Reader, Writer etc, with some helper functions in
> Archive::Tar (extract, list, etc).
>
> Neither Zlib nor Bzip2 are archive formats, though; they're compression
> systems with no idea what a file looks like, so Archive:: isn't really
> a good place for them.

Ok, agreed.  I just whipped those up off the top of my head quick.  I guess
they would belong under the "Compress" namespace.  I just lumped them
together because generally where you see an archive, you see a compression
format.

I haven't looked at your module yet.  Does it allow you to compress your
archive?  Would I, for example, be able to create an archive and compress it
in one stroke, using the compression method of my choice (assuming I had the
requisite Ruby module available)?

e.g
require 'archive/tar'
require 'compress/bzip2'
archive = Archive::Tar.new( Dir.entries('.') ).compress('bzip2')

The above would create a bzip'ed tar files for all files in the current
directory.  That would be cool.

Regards,

Dan