On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter <head...@headius.com> wrote: > > Well the gem format is a tar of a tar-gz-ball and some gzip compressed > stuff. Rather than adding a new "x" mime type, what's wrong with just > tar format? > > Not sure if that layering is formally specified anywhere, but that's > what it is and has been forever. >
>tar tf rake-compiler-0.7.5.gem data.tar.gz metadata.gz So sees tar recognizes .gem as tar files :-) And file also: >file rake-compiler-0.7.5.gem rake-compiler-0.7.5.gem: POSIX tar archive -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubygems Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
