From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T17:51:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] jabber4r 0.3.0 (doesn't work with raa-install)

From: "Phil Tomson" <ptkwt@shell1.aracnet.com>


> > 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...


raa-install should have a Ruby-based ability to operate with .tar.gz and with
.zip.

We should aim to have this ability in the 1.8 standard library.

Gavin