[Rubygems-developers] Why base64?

[Chad Fowler]

Replace that ptach link with
http://rafb.net/paste/results/V2213171.html

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Chad Fowler wrote:

# Mauricio Fernandez asked the question on irc, "Why use base64?"  So, I 
# thought I'd post the question here as well.  He has an example gem here:
# http://www.thekode.net/misc/chad-1.2.3.gem
# 
# And the patch (not that it's not obvious) here:
# http://rafb.net/paste/results/k2460949.html
# 
# I find it more pleasing to open the file and see base64, but is there a 
# less subjective reason that we *need* to base64 encode files?  I assumed 
# that putting binary files into the gems was a bad thing for some reason, 
# but I'm not convinced that there is a technical reason not to do it.
# 
# Chad
# 
# _______________________________________________
# Rubygems-developers mailing list
# Rubygems-developers at rubyforge.org
# http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
#