Re: status of Archite::Tar::Wrapper

On 05/26/2018 04:51 PM, Alceu Rodrigues de Freitas Junior via 
cpan-testers-discuss wrote:
 > Hello folks,
 >
 > This is a bit off-topic, but do you guys now the status of 
Archive::Tar::Wrapper project?
 >
 > I understand it is quite used by us (since it's faster to unpack 
tarballs than the alternatives) but it just doesn't work on OpenBSD.
 >

Agreed.  It's all red at 
http://fast-matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Archive-Tar-Wrapper;os=openbsd;reports=1

But, curiously, it's all green on FreeBSD -- notwithstanding an open 
FreeBSD-specific bug:  https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=102645
So the maintainer is not even taking care of the low-hanging fruit.


 > I sent a Pull Request of a fix for it 
(https://github.com/mschilli/archive-tar-wrapper-perl/pull/11) but so 
far didn't get any feedback from Mr. Schilli.
 >
 > Maybe I should fork the project?
 >

It's on github, so you can fork it.  But, in my experience over the last 
two years, the problem is getting a new CPAN release out the door.  More 
than we like, we have author/maintainers of key modules -- where "key" 
means either high up on the CPAN river or used in the toolchain -- who 
decline easy stuff (e.g., corrections to tests as opposed to source 
code) either passively (by failing to respond) or actively (by 
denouncing the patch requestors).

Now, I hasten to add that most CPAN contributors are not like that. 
Still, it's the CPAN release that matters; anyone can fork on github. So 
you might have to go the route of seeking comaint privileges. There's a 
documented procedure for doing that (though I'd have to search for the 
link), but let's first see if we can locate people who know the author 
and see what's up.

And, no, I don't think your post is off-topic -- so I'll delete that 
part of the Subject line in my reply.

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan