Re: [Module::Build] codebase? paths in .tar.gz?

[Glenn L. <pe...@ne...>]

On approximately 12/20/2003 2:23 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Jos I. Boumans:
> 
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Ken Williams wrote:
> 
>>On Saturday, December 20, 2003, at 12:17  PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:
>>
>>>Well this atleast proves that the paths are there, thus it is not a
>>>problem with M::B, but I think this is going to be a big issue for
>>>Windows users. I think if it's possible for Archive::Tar to be better
>>>compatible with other tools, it should. If I knew anything about the
>>>tar  format, I'd try to provide a patch. Since I don't, I'll just cc
>>>the maintainer. ;-)
>>
>>I have some kind of vague recollection that maybe this issue in
>>Archive::Tar has been fixed privately by Kane and is just waiting for
>>him to release it.
>>
>>Kane, can you put Glenn out of his misery?  Or am I remembering wrong?
> 
> 
> well, even though m::b may use A::T to build an archive, and ppm uses it
> to extract, it may not be the same A::T -- AS perl ships with a very old
> version of A::T which does not support the full tar standard (including
> the prefix header). Several people have already advised AS to upgrade A::T
> to a recent version, that works on win32 and actually supports most of the
> spec...
> 
> the easiest fix would be to require the client to have a::t > 1.00 to make
> sure this doesn't happen, but i'm not sure how to enforce this...

Well, I had to upgrade Archive::Tar to get Module::Build to work.  Can 
ppm still use an older version after I've installed a new one?

C:\Documents and Settings\Glenn>ppm
PPM - Programmer's Package Manager version 3.0.1.
Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState SRL. All Rights Reserved.

Entering interactive shell. Using Term::ReadLine::Stub as readline library.

Profile tracking is not enabled. If you save and restore profiles manually,
your profile may be out of sync with your computer. See 'help profile' for
more information.

Type 'help' to get started.

ppm> query Archive
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.0.805)
   1. Archive-Tar  [1.07] Manipulates TAR archives
   2. Archive-Zip  [1.06] Provide an interface to ZIP archive files.
ppm> exit

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