RE: Changes to IO::Compress::*

From: Craig A. Berry [mailto:[email protected]]
 
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Paul Marquess
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Clark [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nicholas
Clark
> >
> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:57:42PM -0000, Paul Marquess wrote:
> >>
> >> > Regarding Bzip2, I include the C source for Bzip2 in
Compress-Raw-Bzip2
> >> and
> >> > the license looks ok from a perl perspective (see
> >> > http://www.bzip.org/1.0.5/bzip2-manual-1.0.5.html for the gory
> details).
> >> >
> >> > Comments please?
> >>
> >> Does it build cleanly on VMS?
> >
> > Good question.
> >
> > I don't see anything in my email archive about anyone trying to get
> > Compress::Bzip2::Raw & IO::Compress::Bzip2 working on VMS. Also nothing
on
> > CPAN Testers for anyone testing them on VMS.
> >
> > Is there anyone with access to VMS that could try Compress::Bzip2::Raw &
> > IO::Compress::Bzip2?
> 
> I can do that, but it may take me a day or two to get to it.
> Meanwhile I've cc'd vmsperl in case anyone there can beat me to it.

Thanks, that would be great. 

I found this link regarding getting bzip2 to build on VMS

http://antinode.info/dec/sw/bzip2.html

From a quick look it looks like the changes are all to do with file IO. The
sub-set of the bzip2 source I use doesn't include any file IO, so fingers
crossed.


Paul