I've been sitting on a patch for Compress::Bzip2 for a while; I sent it to the maintainer (Marco Carnut, http://search.cpan.org/~kcarnut/) but he didn't reply. The patch:
- fixes a bug with compressing small strings (the allocated buffer is too small)
- adds error reporting and checking
- adds tests
- adds an OO streaming interface
- adds a 'version' method to get the bzip2 library version
- cleans up the documentation
- looks for libbz2, rather than hard-coding the location
I can send the patch to this list if desired (it's about 9k gzipped), or go ahead and upload a new version to CPAN, although I don't want to tread on anyone's toes. If Marco can't be found I'd be willing to take over maintainership.
I was in the same position about two years ago. Never heard anything back. I would recommend you take over maintenance of the module, I think any toes to tread on have long since moved away.
David
