On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 02:11:56PM -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> John Nolan wrote:
> >
> ...
> > I think this would be an appropriate time for the mailing list
> > maintainer and/or the CPAN script archive maintainer to weigh in
> > with an opinion.
>
> I, also, am neither.
>
> A little while ago (at the Perl conference in Monterrey) I spoke with
> Kurt about what needed to be done to get tarballs working for the
> Scripts section. As a result of that, I wrote a module called
> File::Archive, which can read certain information out of an archive
> file, whatever format that file was in (tar, tar.gz, .gz, and maybe some
> others - I forget). This was to be the basis of some work to make it
> possible to upload .tar.gz files to the Scripts section of CPAN, and
> have them work as desired.
And thanks for that work, Rich. The module is useful even on its own.
> My impression has been since then that Kurt is, as we say in Kentucky,
> busier than a one-armed wall-paper-hanger (or a one-legged man in a
> butt-kicking contest, depending on what county you're from ...) and has
> simply not had the time to get to it.
Yup, I've been [ insert comparison to anatomically-challenged laborer
or athlete here ], and I haven't finished integrating File::Archive into
the scripts-processing system (I started, I found a bug, Rich fixed it,
then somebody moved all my tuits).
This project has sat too long, though. Tonight, I'll finish adding
support for scripts in tarballs (with and without compression). Watch
this space for further details.
> While the proposed tool certainly is pretty cool, I think that it would
> be cooler to be able to upload stuff to CPAN in a standard, common, and
> familiar format, rather than a new one cooked up for the purpose.
>
> Just my humble opinion.
I agree on this point. PAUSE has done very well so far with
tarballs. They're easy to parse, construct, and deconstruct.
What new capabilities do shar files make available to us?
> Perhaps a more valuable thing to do would be to ask Kurt what he has in
> mind, and what we can do to help move that along.
You could complain like it matters. Oh wait, you just did. ;^)
Peace,
* Kurt Starsinic ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ---------- Senior Network Engineer *
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