From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson) Date: 2002-12-12T13:44:39+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] jabber4r 0.3.0 (doesn't work with raa-install) In article <20021211220353.GA1088@localhost.localdomain>, Tom Clarke wrote: > >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? > Actually, it doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to support .zip files on Unix using RubyZip. So zlib doesn't come with the standard Ruby distro? Perhaps we should lobby for it's inclusion in 1.7? Phil -- "Or perhaps the truth is less interesting than the facts?" Amy Weiss (accusing theregister.co.uk of engaging in 'tabloid journalism') Senior VP, Communications Recording Industry Association of America