>>>>> On Sat, 26 May 2007 20:47:18 +0200, demerphq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 5/26/07, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>>> 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. > Is 7z supported by CPAN? :-) > http://sevenzip.sourceforge.net/download.html CPAN will start to support bz2 sometime this year. Eleven years after its invention. So much about our readiness to adopt new formats:) >> > 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. > It would be nice to know tho. If only so as to know what to avoid. One data point is https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25913 -- andreas
