From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-12-12T17:24:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] jabber4r 0.3.0 (doesn't work with raa-install)

In article <001e01c2a19f$dbc30ba0$3301a8c0@TECHNO>,
Rich Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
>And there are some of us ruby folk who develop on Windows and not Linux
>(so we can be closer to our users ;-) and the common compression is .zip
>format.  Now I happen to _have_ the ability to tar and gzip the file,
>but don't you think you should support something on standard unix
>(tar.gz) and standard win32 (zip)?

True, but does every Windows user have pkzip installed?  Is it built-in to 
Windows these days?  (been assimilated...)

raa-install has a Ruby implementation of tar in it (actually they got it 
from rpkg - BTW: this tar module should be a separate packge on the RAA 
;-) so there should be no problem untar'ing on Windows.  I'm not sure if 
this Ruby tar module lets you create tar files, though...

>
>If it makes everyone happy I will tar.gz jabber4r.
>

It should work for windows folk as well for the reasons I mentioned above.

Phil
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