Re: Extract / Insert text files

John Nolan wrote:
> 
...
> I think this would be an appropriate time for the mailing list
> maintainer and/or the CPAN script archive maintainer to weigh in
> with an opinion.

I, also, am neither.

A little while ago (at the Perl conference in Monterrey) I spoke with
Kurt about what needed to be done to get tarballs working for the
Scripts section. As a result of that, I wrote a module called
File::Archive, which can read certain information out of an archive
file, whatever format that file was in (tar, tar.gz, .gz, and maybe some
others - I forget). This was to be the basis of some work to make it
possible to upload .tar.gz files to the Scripts section of CPAN, and
have them work as desired.

My impression has been since then that Kurt is, as we say in Kentucky,
busier than a one-armed wall-paper-hanger (or a one-legged man in a
butt-kicking contest, depending on what county you're from ...) and has
simply not had the time to get to it.

While the proposed tool certainly is pretty cool, I think that it would
be cooler to be able to upload stuff to CPAN in a standard, common, and
familiar format, rather than a new one cooked up for the purpose.

Just my humble opinion.

Perhaps a more valuable thing to do would be to ask Kurt what he has in
mind, and what we can do to help move that along.

Rich
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