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

[Jos I. B. <ka...@dw...>]

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...

-jos