>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 20:06:18 +0200, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 5/26/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 26 May 2007, at 18:45, demerphq wrote: >> > Maybe ill just upload my files in zip format from now on only, then >> > its not my problem anymore right? Would that be better? >> >> That would be fine. > Fine then. You do not have to change anything, Yves. Your tarballs were all fine as far as I know. Do not switch to zip format, please, without a reason. While ZIP has several significant advantages over TAR.GZ, it is inferior in compression metrics. CPAN is not fond of seeing zip files because they usually are 10-30 percent bigger. > The fact that ExtUtils make dist automatically produces a > .tar.gz and the fact that Archive::Tar does not do the right thing is > not exactly my fault however. AFAIK it is not Archive::Tar either. I have not found out which compression software packages do it right and which do it wrong. I have communicated with several authors about it but being Windows users, they do not know it either. On new metrics: I agree with the OP that software packaged with absurd permission bits offends kwality. But everybody should know that PAUSE cannot index these beasts anyway and sends mail to the authors that it cannot read the contents of the distro and that they need to make a new upload when they want to be indexed. -- andreas
