[Rubygems-developers] gem format

[Lyle Johnson]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:32:16 -0400 (EDT), Chad Fowler
<chad at chadfowler.com> wrote:

> There are obvious advantages to using tar/gzip, including the fact that
> many tools already support it.  I think it would be especially nice for
> browsing the contents of a gem before installing it.

I'd personally like _some_ solution that involves compressing the
data, since the binary and source gems for FXRuby are so large when
uncompressed.