From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-08-28T05:19:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [long]Re: Ruby developers: help push RPKG development and usage forward!! (it is like CPAN.pm, only Ruby)

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:12:22PM +0900, Pierre Baillet wrote:
> As far as i'm concerned, i would love to use rpkg if it was working on my
> win32 ruby without a hassle. But AFAIK, rpkg depends on zlib which is
> not straightforward to get(/build) under win32 platforms hence my
> suggestion.

I used zlib as, I gathered, it was going to end up in the next
standard distribution.  Can someone just make a precompiled .dll
available before then?  The alternative was requiring the user to
install a gzip executable.

I'm all for portability and for rpkg to be as self contained as
possible.  For the implementation of rpkg that can be currently
downloaded, I've gone as far writing an Ar archive format reader in
ruby and Thomas Hurst wrote a Tar archive reader.  The short version
of the story is, I'm on your side guys. :-)

> Using more often rpkg would allow us to have binary packages (which rpkg
> supports, if i remember well) and only a few people will have to worry
> about building this library to get ruby working.

Yes.  That's one of the reasons I started writing rpkg in the first
place.


Massimiliano