Re: [AMaViS-user] Archive::Tar

[Adrian P. <a.p...@dn...>]

>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Phillips <a.p...@dn...> writes:

>>>>> "Lars" == Lars Hecking <lhe...@us...> writes:
    Lars> Archive::Tar is unmaintained, unfortunately. I you send me a
    Lars> clean patch to Archive::Tar, i.e. which doesn't use
    Lars> amavis-internal functions, I'll put it into contrib.

    Adrian> Could you please explain how you know Archive::Tar is
    Adrian> unmaintained; certainly the author is an active Perl
    Adrian> hacker still and a Debian maintainer ?

Okay, I found the following email on perl-qa :-

    Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip are very essential modules.  You use
    them every time you run the CPAN shell.  However, their implementation
    could use a little work and the authors could use a little help.

    In all cases the need better tests, clearer docs, tutorials and a
    general cleanup of the code.  If anyone is seriously interested in
    helping out the authors, please contact them.  Or better yet, surprise
    them with a patch!

    Archive::Tar    Stephen Zander  <gi...@po...>
    Archive::Zip    Ned Konz        <ne...@cp...>


    -- 

    Michael G. Schwern   <sc...@po...> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
    Perl6 Quality Assurance     <pe...@pe...> Kwalitee Is Job One

So it looks like emailing either the authors or perl-qa with patches
may help obtain new versions on CPAN,

Sincerely,

Adrian Phillips

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