Re: [PATCH] ExtUtils::MakeMaker and world writable files in dists

David Cantrell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.quality-assurance,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.extutils-makemaker.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:14:10PM +0200, Cosimo Streppone wrote:

> Could this work?

No, because --mode is a GNUism.  If you make that the default then it
will break for everyone who doesn't use GNU tar.

Having EU::MM try to use that flag when it's supported is a good idea
though.  Probably better, and easier, to just make it use Archive::Tar,
and patch that if necessary.

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