From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2002-01-27T08:26:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] rubyzip 0.3.1

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Daniel Berger wrote:

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

Why as a string? IMHO, its better with

  archive = Archive::Tar.new(entries).compress(Bzip2)

or even

  archive = Bzip2.compress( Archive::Tar.new(entries) )

where archives need not know about compressors at all => less
coupling. But maybe they need to know about them anyhow to detect and
correctly handle tgz as inputs...

/Robert