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Id: 17761
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: CPAN
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: adamk [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Unimportant
Broken in: 1.85
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  Mon Feb 20 12:53:33 2006 adamk [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Default core Perl on windows cannot open packages
I don't know if you can fix this one here. On windows, using a default build of Perl with no additional extras from Vanilla Perl or ActivePerl, you can't open packages from CPAN. In the core Perl case, CPAN.pm uses tar and gunzip, both of which don't exist on Win32. Not sure how to solve this problem short of moving Compress::Zlib and Archive::Tar into the core... (and possibly one or two more). But I've left it here in case you have any ideas.
  Mon Feb 20 15:51:00 2006 andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #17761] Default core Perl on windows cannot open packages
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:50:10 +0100
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: andreas.koenig.gmwojprw [...] franz.ak.mind.de (Andreas J. Koenig)
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>>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:53:35 -0500 (EST), " via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> Mon Feb 20 12:53:33 2006: Request 17761 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by ADAMK > Queue: CPAN > Subject: Default core Perl on windows cannot open packages > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: ADAMK@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17761 >
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> I don't know if you can fix this one here.
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> On windows, using a default build of Perl with no additional extras from > Vanilla Perl or ActivePerl, you can't open packages from CPAN.
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> In the core Perl case, CPAN.pm uses tar and gunzip, both of which don't > exist on Win32.
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> Not sure how to solve this problem short of moving Compress::Zlib and > Archive::Tar into the core... (and possibly one or two more).
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> But I've left it here in case you have any ideas.
I'd expect bundle people to include Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib in *their* code, be it Activestar or Camelstate. Oops sorry:) I'd hope CPAN.pm makes the correct guess then and actually uses the modules. -- andreas
  Mon Feb 20 15:51:01 2006 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Feb 20 15:57:17 2006 adam [...] phase-n.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #17761] Default core Perl on windows cannot open packages
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 07:54:14 +1100
To: bug-CPAN [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Adam Kennedy <adam [...] phase-n.com>
Well yes, except that Vanilla Perl isn't supposed to do bundling. It's supposed to be just the plain core Perl. Adam K andreas.koenig.gmwojprw@franz.ak.mind.de via RT wrote: Show quoted text
>>>>>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 12:53:35 -0500 (EST), " via RT" <bug-CPAN@rt.cpan.org> said:
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> > Mon Feb 20 12:53:33 2006: Request 17761 was acted upon. > > Transaction: Ticket created by ADAMK > > Queue: CPAN > > Subject: Default core Perl on windows cannot open packages > > Owner: Nobody > > Requestors: ADAMK@cpan.org > > Status: new > > Ticket <URL: http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=17761 >
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> > I don't know if you can fix this one here.
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> > On windows, using a default build of Perl with no additional extras from > > Vanilla Perl or ActivePerl, you can't open packages from CPAN.
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> > In the core Perl case, CPAN.pm uses tar and gunzip, both of which don't > > exist on Win32.
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> > Not sure how to solve this problem short of moving Compress::Zlib and > > Archive::Tar into the core... (and possibly one or two more).
>
> > But I've left it here in case you have any ideas.
> > I'd expect bundle people to include Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib in > *their* code, be it Activestar or Camelstate. Oops sorry:) > > I'd hope CPAN.pm makes the correct guess then and actually uses the > modules. > >
  Fri Mar 23 02:17:23 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I think I can close this noting that 5.10 will have Archive::Tar and Compress::Zlib. Thanks!
  Fri Mar 23 02:17:27 2007 ANDK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'