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Subject: Use the zip download instead of the bzip2
Any Perl install should have access to something that can extract zip files, including on Win32. However, access to a bzip2 program is much more problematic, as Windows does not have one (or equivalent modules) in the default Perl and getting access to one is difficult. If the use of a bzip2 is because the download is smaller, I'd recommend switching back to the zip/tarball version. The relatively small amount of extra bandwitdh is much less of a problem than those created by adding an additional dependency.
On Sat Jun 24 18:30:30 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text
> However, access to a bzip2 program is much more problematic, as Windows > does not have one (or equivalent modules) in the default Perl and > getting access to one is difficult. > > If the use of a bzip2 is because the download is smaller, I'd recommend > switching back to the zip/tarball version. The relatively small amount > of extra bandwitdh is much less of a problem than those created by > adding an additional dependency.
Seems a good idea. I made the archive type configurable (defaulting to .tar.gz) in 0.14. Thanks Mattia