Re: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip
On 16 Mar 2002 11:14:56 -0800, Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Michael == Michael G Schwern Michael writes: Michael and here's a patch. Applied, thanks! Thanks to you both. Looking forward to test the new version. -- andreas
Re: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip
On 02 Mar 2002 18:41:15 -0800, Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If someone would like to send them to me, I'll get my act together a little better and get a new release out. A pseudo-patch would be OK? I found that Tar.pm contains chdir $_; and chdir $cwd if @path; I'd like to see these guarded by something like: ... or Carp::croak(Could not chdir to directory ...: $!); That would be a very high security requirement. -- andreas
Re: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip
On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 01:55:29PM +0100, Tels wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, I Cc:ed [EMAIL PROTECTED], they are the ones ;) to decide this, if the authors are not responding. Although I wouldn't count on beeing lucky, since I am trying to patch/takeover/maintain Math::Fraction for almost two years. The authors address is dead, and multiply requests/efforts all resulting in lets wait a few months mores ;) If it has really been that long then I would agree that we change it. On 02-Mar-02 Adrian Phillips tried to scribble about: On the Amavis mailing list (www.amavis.org) it has been mentioned several times that Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip are unmaintained, the current amavis author has tried to send patches for both packages in the past few months without any success; apparently there was supposed to be a new version of Archive::Zip released a logn while ago. While Archive::Tar is registered to Calle Dybedahl who uploaded v0.02 back in 1997 Stephen Zander has uploaded a 0.22 release (although that was back on 2000) Have you spoken with Stephen ? Graham. Now, I would just like to say that I am not criticising the current maintainers/authors if they have been unable to find the time to release newer versions. I am well aware of the amount of effort required to keep packages going especially with other projects and real life. What I would like to ask is :- - what is the current maintainership state of these 2 modules ? - if the current maintainers still have big problems would they allow the packages to be taken over by someone else ? - I am willing to do so if they wish, although I do not have any existing CPAN modules and will have to go through registering with PAUSE (as well as reading the PAUSE docs). Sincerely, Adrian Phillips - -- perl -MDev::Bollocks -e'print Dev::Bollocks-rand(),\n' quickly promote industry-wide models http://bloodgate.com/perl My current Perl projects PGP key available on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or via email -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPIDI5XcLPEOTuEwVAQEu3gf9FApIjGN32QRFKX6ER7s0QGEJm/d2q7Bc 72WrMqxKpT6zxcqKGvnz93LrBIzX6L8xU3jYVqDSI+RQUh/iiiFEs4LwdF7GVnt+ P8WX1iyCEnpAjB4qaRPOHSJ7eJe1+MYHzEtxU/6qjQrFRaLkR6ZBW/N6gJlvApak a0KSajBd5jBb3tvjnOOQ37nMqLG0g4+2ygQ00ERWIHSgR7ABWJDs+4M9xeImMjuT 0sLMtd6suMX2D/jUqcxN7RA9NoSfgWhXlBwNnjvsWhI50eAf8h/qu/O8rA7tC+9M 7LtAjGezfkemalgC69mSgS4kmcnkr7O7MgES5ogE4W2ef3TorGMFbg== =YwiM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Maintaining Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Moin, I Cc:ed [EMAIL PROTECTED], they are the ones ;) to decide this, if the authors are not responding. Although I wouldn't count on beeing lucky, since I am trying to patch/takeover/maintain Math::Fraction for almost two years. The authors address is dead, and multiply requests/efforts all resulting in lets wait a few months mores ;) The best bet is that the authors respond and let you do something. Unfortunately, it is not possible to register a co-author via CPAN, like someone who can release new versions, while the original author is still in effect. Hope that helps, Tels On 02-Mar-02 Adrian Phillips tried to scribble about: On the Amavis mailing list (www.amavis.org) it has been mentioned several times that Archive::Tar and Archive::Zip are unmaintained, the current amavis author has tried to send patches for both packages in the past few months without any success; apparently there was supposed to be a new version of Archive::Zip released a logn while ago. Now, I would just like to say that I am not criticising the current maintainers/authors if they have been unable to find the time to release newer versions. I am well aware of the amount of effort required to keep packages going especially with other projects and real life. What I would like to ask is :- - what is the current maintainership state of these 2 modules ? - if the current maintainers still have big problems would they allow the packages to be taken over by someone else ? - I am willing to do so if they wish, although I do not have any existing CPAN modules and will have to go through registering with PAUSE (as well as reading the PAUSE docs). Sincerely, Adrian Phillips - -- perl -MDev::Bollocks -e'print Dev::Bollocks-rand(),\n' quickly promote industry-wide models http://bloodgate.com/perl My current Perl projects PGP key available on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or via email -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPIDI5XcLPEOTuEwVAQEu3gf9FApIjGN32QRFKX6ER7s0QGEJm/d2q7Bc 72WrMqxKpT6zxcqKGvnz93LrBIzX6L8xU3jYVqDSI+RQUh/iiiFEs4LwdF7GVnt+ P8WX1iyCEnpAjB4qaRPOHSJ7eJe1+MYHzEtxU/6qjQrFRaLkR6ZBW/N6gJlvApak a0KSajBd5jBb3tvjnOOQ37nMqLG0g4+2ygQ00ERWIHSgR7ABWJDs+4M9xeImMjuT 0sLMtd6suMX2D/jUqcxN7RA9NoSfgWhXlBwNnjvsWhI50eAf8h/qu/O8rA7tC+9M 7LtAjGezfkemalgC69mSgS4kmcnkr7O7MgES5ogE4W2ef3TorGMFbg== =YwiM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
