From: Jferg <johngferguson@...>
Date: 2010-11-18T11:40:20+09:00
Subject: Windows and Rake package task - problems with tar

Ever see an issue with trying to package a gem like this: "rake
gem:package"?   It tries to use a Ruby Rake task (package task) which
fails on "sh tar zcvf <target tgz> <gem src dir>"?

It seems to be part of base Rake.  On windows I get errors with tar
not liking the "z" switch.  Complains about "remote files", what
remote files?  I have looked for various tar implementations that run
on Windows, and so far no luck.

Has anyone else found out how to get this work on Windows XP?  So far,
my option is to hack the Rake code to not use "z", seems to create an
uncompressed gem which I can then install and uninstall correctly.  I
don't like this hack and I haven't found the (obvious?) place in
documentation to do what I need to do without the hack.