On approximately 10/30/2003 11:59 PM, came the following characters from the keyboard of Autrijus Tang:
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:46:54PM -0800, Glenn Linderman wrote:
But then whatever version of TAR I happen to have (I'm not a heavy TAR user... had downloaded one many moons ago, but usually use PowerArchiver to crack .tar files) couldn't read the 1-basic.t files from Module-ScanDeps-0.32/t/
Ouch, ouch. That seems to be the crux of the problem.
OK, renaming the ancient TAR ... AND ... deleting the .tar file in the /.cpan directory, and running nmake a few times to figure out that more than the rename was required... and then finally I had the guts to try "nmake install", and it seemed to work.
So it wasn't clear to me that CPAN could use Archive::TAR... seems like if it could, it should prefer it, over bizarro tar.exe's on the path... Guess CPAN isn't your problem, though, except to the extent that you use it inside of the PAR makefile.pl (apparently).
I think you can also just use:
ppm install PAR
to install the previous version (0.75) of PAR, or wait for ActiveState to generate the .ppd for PAR 0.76.
Seems like on the Windows platform, generating a .ppd would be the appropriate way to distribute a module. Or a self-extracting archive.
Well, except I've been reading the PAR mailing list for a while, and 0.76 seems to finally have all the features I wanted. Maybe. Testing will determine that. Gotta learn the option syntax first.
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