Re: [Module::Build] Ready for 0.22?

[Randy K. <ra...@th...>]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote:

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> I don't know why this is just now occuring to me (prolly
> 'cuz I don't use ppm), but ppm can use both .tar.gz
> archives and .zip archives. If you look at the repository
> at
> <http://ppm.activestate.com/PPMPackages/zips/8xx-builds-only/Windows/>
> you'll see that all of them are .zip archives, so that's
> the reason this issue has never come up before wrt ppm.
> There are a couple of other repositories out there (Jenda
> Krynicky's and Randy Kobes' though I don't remember the
> urls); I suspect that they either use zips or use a
> working version of tar to create their archives.

Hopefully not to add too much to the confusion, but, at
least for our repository, I use A::T on a Windows box to
create the .tar.gz archives. So in principle A::T can be
used exclusively to read/write .tar.gz files. Problems may
arise when using different versions of A::T across different
platforms - for example, I know of cases when a Win32 client
can't extract an archive (using A::T) when that archive was
created on a linux box (using A::T).

-- 
best regards,
randy