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

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

On Sunday, December 21, 2003, at 06:29  AM, Jos I. Boumans wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, [iso-8859-1] Andrew Savige wrote:
>> At the cost of making the A::T code somewhat ugly, I think an 
>> imperfect
>> heuristic solution is possible, so that if all PATHs in the tarball 
>> were
>> less than 100 characters in length, A::T could write the whole path at
>> the front of the chunk and not use the 'prefix' field -- with a 
>> different
>> code path, using the 'prefix' field, followed if any path in the 
>> tarball
>> exceeds 100 characters in length.
> i'm very much opposed to this solution, since this still doesn't 
> actually
> /fix/ the problem; it's merely coding around a problem in /other/ 
> tools,

Those other tools aren't broken, they're simply written to an older 
version of the TAR spec.  And it seems really bad to produce tarballs 
that will silently fail with all such tools.  You know, "backward 
compatibility" and all....

  -Ken