From f9a0f3e80f7b8885e6cc24124b6dd394c60c3a18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Vandenberg <flangy@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:15:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Add gzip utility function.

---
 Library/Homebrew/utils.rb | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
index 79f739826c..123d67937e 100644
--- a/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
+++ b/Library/Homebrew/utils.rb
@@ -150,6 +150,12 @@ def exec_editor *args
   exec *(editor.split+args)
 end
 
+# GZips the given path, and returns the gzipped file
+def gzip path
+  system "/usr/bin/gzip", path
+  return Pathname.new(path+".gz")
+end
+
 # returns array of architectures suitable for -arch gcc flag
 def archs_for_command cmd
     cmd = `/usr/bin/which #{cmd}` unless Pathname.new(cmd).absolute?