On 05/26/2018 04:51 PM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via
cpan-testers-discuss wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but do you guys now the status of
Archive::Tar::Wrapper project?
>
> I understand it is quite used by us (since it's faster to unpack
tarballs than the alternatives) but it just doesn't work on OpenBSD.
>
Agreed. It's all red at
http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Archive-Tar-Wrapper;os=openbsd;reports=1
But, curiously, it's all green on FreeBSD -- notwithstanding an open
FreeBSD-specific bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=102645
So the maintainer is not even taking care of the low-hanging fruit.
> I sent a Pull Request of a fix for it
(https://github.com/mschilli/archive-tar-wrapper-perl/pull/11) but so
far didn't get any feedback from Mr. Schilli.
>
> Maybe I should fork the project?
>
It's on github, so you can fork it. But, in my experience over the last
two years, the problem is getting a new CPAN release out the door. More
than we like, we have author/maintainers of key modules -- where "key"
means either high up on the CPAN river or used in the toolchain -- who
decline easy stuff (e.g., corrections to tests as opposed to source
code) either passively (by failing to respond) or actively (by
denouncing the patch requestors).
Now, I hasten to add that most CPAN contributors are not like that.
Still, it's the CPAN release that matters; anyone can fork on github. So
you might have to go the route of seeking comaint privileges. There's a
documented procedure for doing that (though I'd have to search for the
link), but let's first see if we can locate people who know the author
and see what's up.
And, no, I don't think your post is off-topic -- so I'll delete that
part of the Subject line in my reply.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
