Re: Archive::Tar::Wrapper makes sense with MS Windows?

On 2018-06-09 23:18, Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. via cpan-testers-discuss wrote:

> 2018/06/05 11:08:18 C:\WINDOWS\system32\tar.EXE jx -f C:\STRAWB~1\cpan\build\Archive-Tar-Wrapper-0.25-0\t\data\foo.tar.bz2 failed: tar.EXE: Error opening archive: Can't initialize filter; unable to run program "bzip2 -d"
> 
> Does it make any sense at all to try to make the distro to work with MS Windows? I'm not using Windows for a while already, so I'm not sure if the tar.exe can work together with bzip2 or not.

I would assume that GNU tar on Windows works just fine with bzip2 if 
it's installed. After all, it certainly works with gzip.

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