On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Barbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps now is a good time to decide a definitive list of archive > formats and extensions that we will support. For the most part those > that use 'make dist' will generate .tar.gz. I'm assuming that the other > formats are generated by scripts written by authors themselves, if not > what are the tools people use and the associated extensions?
Here's what I see for count by extension in my devel-minicpan: .pm.gz: 35 .tar.bz2: 3 .tar.gz: 16041 .tgz: 260 .zip: 119 # note -- excludes .ppm.zip I've tend to think that the .tgz and .zip are done manually from "make distdir". That's easier in some cases on Win32 for example when a well-behaved tar binary isn't available. I sort of feel that as long as we aren't testing the .ppm.zip files anymore, this isn't such an issue that we need to worry about it until people start complaining about something. David
