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On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 17:39:01 +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: >On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote: >> (Including Archive::Tar as part of the base perl distribution's not >> inappropriate, assuming we can get permission. ) Since it's already part of the "standard distribution" for Win32, both ActiveState and IndigoStar, as both use it in order to install packages, I guess that that won't be much of a problem. >Do we really want to use tar format (over say cpio) as tar rounds files >up to 512 block boundaries, and has some arbitrary restrictions on filename >lengths in the headers? You don't need to use raw .tar. Archive::Tar works perfectly fine with .tar.gz files. Compression effectively takes care of the padding with nulls, because they get "compressed away". The compression is handled by the Compress::Zlib module. So if there is any redistribution licensee problem, I expect it to be there. -- Bart.Thread Previous | Thread Next