Re: [Module::Build] Archive::Tar file format

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

On approximately 1/13/2004 12:22 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Jos I. Boumans:
> 
> On 12-jan-04, at 19:38, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> 
> what needs to happen to make this work with M::B is:
> A) patch M::B to use the $Archive::Tar::DO_NOT_USE_PREFIX flag
> B) create an archive with M::B from a dir structure with at least one  
> file of > 100
>     chars, like in:
>     http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KAKE/Bot-BasicBot- 
> Pluggable-Module-SimpleBlog-0.02.tar.gz
> C) attempt to extract this file with your tar extractor of choice

Why should I make my module have a file of > 100 chars?  Such a name is 
much too long, in my opinion, for this module of interest.

I believe that you have my test case, and can see that there are no 
files with names > 100 chars.

If the problems with PowerArchiver (and other utilities) seeing 
pathnames are related to pathnames that are longer than 100 characters, 
why are those other utilities having problems displaying the directory 
names from the output of A::T when the pathnames are less than 100 
characters?

I think we are still missing something here.

>> Along the way, PowerArchiver 2001 isn't able to see the pathnames.
> 
> well, nothing changed yet :)

OK, I understand that.  I didn't necessarily expect that anything would 
change, without corresponding fixes to M::B, but wanted to do due 
diligence and find out.

Especially, because I still don't know why people are fixing and 
discussing > 100 character pathnames, when my test case that fails 
doesn't have any!  Not that it isn't an interesting discussion, and not 
that the fixes won't be welcome, of course, as from all accounts that 
I've heard, some improvements can be made.

> p.s. please /please/ stop sending me all emails twice, thanks

Could you please clarify if you are subscribed to receive all the 
module-build-general messages?  I'm under the understanding that you are 
not, and using that understanding, you only seem to appear in my list of 
addressees once, for this message, and every other message that I've sent.

-- 
Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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