Re: [Module::Build] ANNOUNCE: 0.21 released

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 04:34  AM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> Andrew Savige wrote:
>> The next release of Archive::Tar (1.08) will fix the bug of adding
>> directories to tarballs failing under Windows (so the above grep
>> workaround should then become unnecessary). If you need a patch
>> for this bug now, please let me know.
>
> Hi Andrew, Thanks for the quick fix; It's good to know that 
> Archive::Tar is now being actively maintained.
>
> Ken, Since a file stat and test is a relatively expensive operation, 
> and since the chatter produced is non-fatal, doesn't break anything, 
> and will go away in future versions of Archive::Tar, I would suggest 
> reverting this change. If anyone complains about the chatter, we can 
> suggest that they bump their version of Archive::Tar.

Agreed - done.

  -Ken