On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. Will the CPAN testing and downloading toolchian will handle modules > uploaded as .tar.bz2? (Allow to install them, unpack them, etc.) How > about tar.xz.
.bz2, yes. .xz, possibly, but not reliably. CPANPLUS uses Archive::Extract, which can handle .xz if there are xz binaries installed. However, CPAN::DistnameInfo is the standard tool for identifying distribution metadata from a tarball filename and last I checked, it doesn't support .xz extensions, so you'll confuse things that depend on it. > 2. Can I easily pack archives into tar.bz2 or tar.xz using > Module-Build and/or Module-Install ? Not natively. You would need to subclass "make_tarball". -- David
