On 5/29/07, David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
demerphq wrote:
> On 5/26/07, Andreas J. Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> 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.
GNU tar on Windows, I think. At least, pointing out the GNUish --mode
switch has helped people to fix it whenever I've muttered at them about it.
Ive not experienced this problem with cygwin tar, but ill keep an eye
out for it.
>> 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 ...
> Which makes me wonder why David complained about this issue at...
Because I test *everything* that the PAUSE tells cpan-testers about,
which includes unindexable distributions.
Er, so you want a metric to tell people about how their rejected
upload to PAUSE isnt going to work right?
That doesnt sound like a very useful metric. If PAUSE doesnt index it
then you shouldnt test it as its already failed the most important
metric there is.
Yves
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