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

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 1/10/2004 11:53 AM, Randy Kobes wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
>>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).
> 

I'm not sure what's going on at this point. Glenn is descibing two 
problems. 1) A::T produces a tar file that is incompatible with most 
Windows utilities (WinZip, PowerArchiver, etc.). This is confirmed, and 
I believe Jos is working on a fix. 2) Module::Build is used to create a 
dist and ppd file, ppm is run to install the dist which seems to work, 
but in fact, does not install anything. Until now I suspected this was 
related to (1) above, but your account seems to eliminate A::T as the 
culprit.

Have you had occasions to use M::B yet? (version 0.22 should be on CPAN 
by now;) Have you used it to create a dist? Have you run into any 
problems? You know much more about creating ppm distributions than I, so 
I (and many others) would be gratefull for any help or suggestions.

Thanks,
Randy.