From: Tom Clarke <tom@...2i.com>
Date: 2002-12-12T12:04:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] jabber4r 0.3.0 (doesn't work with raa-install)


On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 11:43:31AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <20021211171825.GA2345@localhost.localdomain>,
> How about: http://rubyzip.sourceforge.net/
> 
> From the README:
> rubyzip is a ruby library for reading and writing zip (pkzip format) 
> files, with the restriction that only uncompressed and deflated zip 
> entries are supported. All this library does is handling of the zip file 
> format. the actual compression/decompression is handled by zlib. zlib is 
> accessible from ruby thanks to ruby/zlib
> 
> I think raa-install already depends on zlib.

It does and it doesn't. It requires either zlib or gnu tar. As the
windows distribution comes with zlib, and most modern unixy platforms
will have gnu tar it covers most people.

I think my vote is to standardize on tar.gz. Any other opinions?

-Tom