Re: [MacPerl] CPAN

[Bart Lateur <bart.mediamind@tornado.be>]

Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

> Another possibility just occurred to me: We could simply drop back to stuffit
> 1.5.1. However, there is probably no archive left in the world which
> distributes 1.5.1.

Stuffit Lite provides the possibility to create a 1.5.1 archive. The option is a in a 
check box in the "Save archive as..." file dialog box.

> >2.)  But if we are going to bother to .tar.gz it anyway, why create the
> >.sit.hqx?  Almost anyone who uses MacPerl can get at .tar.gz files, simply
> >because you need it to get at everything else in CPAN.
> 
> tar files have no concept of file types, so shared libraries and droplets
> are going to break. One would have to do MacBinary encoding of the items
> in the tar archive. It's probably better to only put text files in the
> .tar, that still allows search engines and such to operate.

I agree. And don't forget the resource fork, too! .bin and .hqx are used to convert Mac 
files to plain, data fork only files. .tar.gz can, in my opionion, only be used for 
text-only files (source code, html, readme, etc.). 

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