Re: [MacPerl] CPAN

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 16:37 1/14/97, Ray Zimmerman wrote:
>Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>>Now, if this were the only issue, it would probably be OK with everyone to
>>do it this way.  However, there is also the second issue:
>>
>>2.)  In order to get properly integrated into CPAN, the files in the
>>archive (the module and readme) need to be in UNIX linebreak format.  Then
>>in order to use the files, the user had to put them back into Mac linebreak
>>format.  This could be a pain.
>
>StuffIt Expander with the Expander Enhancer converts from UNIX to Mac
>linebreaks automatically (at least for me) and 'tar' for the Mac also has
>the option to do this.

Hmmm ... I just looked at it, and it does NOT do this when expanding .sit
files.  But it did do it properly when expanding my .tar.gz archive.  So
there you have it ...

Sounds like more evidence in favor of just doing .tar.gz and forgetting Mac
formats ...

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Chris Nandor                                              pudge@pobox.com
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