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

Ingram Braun M.A. <[email protected]> was very helpfull giving me more 
details on that by testing on Windows 10.

Basically, I'll need to:

  * skip permissions testing on MS Windows (it is not portable anyway)
  * validate if bzip2 and gzip are available in the current user PATH
    variable. If not, the tests should be skipped or I just stop the
    setup by generating a NA.

Second item is a difficult choice: it won't work out of the box, the 
user will need to install those tools and setup the PATH variable 
mannually. In those strict cases, the tests would pass.

Is there any standard way to generate a NA as a result from tests?


Em 14/06/2018 14:14, David Cantrell escreveu:
> 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.
>