Hi all, I'm doing a little bit of work on zero install (0install.net), which is a dependency manager that can speak a bunch of archive formats (.tgz, .deb, .rpm, etc). I'd like to add .gem to that list. Internally, it distinguishes formats by their mime type. So you have "application/x-bzip-compressed-tar" for a .tar.bz, etc...
So I was wondering if there is an official or agreed-upon mime-type for .gem files? I see rubygems serves them up as application/octet-stream, but that isn't really enough to tell what it is if you don't have the .gem extension. If not, does anyone have any suggestions? I've no idea how these things are agreed upon, but how about I throw "application/x-rubygem" out there for starters... While I'm at it, is there any spec for the format of a .gem file? From looking at examples I've come across, I'm pretty sure I can get away with `tar x` on the gem and then `tar xz` on the data.tar.gz contained inside. Can anyone see a potential problem with that? Cheers, - Tim Cuthbertson _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
