| CC: | Chris Williams <chris [...] bingosnet.co.uk>, bug-Archive-Tar [...] rt.cpan.org |
| Subject: | Re: Archive::Tar derivative Archive::Tar::StreamingPile Author Credit |
| Date: | Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:21:08 +0000 |
| To: | Michael Greb <michael [...] thegrebs.com> |
| From: | "Jos I. Boumans" <kane [...] cpan.org> |
(cc:'d the bug tracker so we have a common record of this)
On 28 Mar 2010, at 23:46, Michael Greb wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> I recently had need for creating some monstrously large tar files,
> containing as many as over 100k files each, some of which were
> multiple gigabytes large. I liked the implementation of the
> Archive::Tar dist with the exception of the memory usage, as you
> might imagine. I looked at Archive::Tar::Streamed as well but it
> didn't suit my purposes as I needed the name the file appeared as in
> the tar archive to differ from the source file's name on disk.
>
> I have created Archive::Tar::StreamingPile and intend to upload it
> to the CPAN. It uses some code from Archive::Tar::Constants and
> Archive::Tar::File. I think there were a few lines from
> Archive::Tar itself as well. I stripped out the unnecessary bits
> for my use-case. IO::Gzip/IO::Bzip support, extracting archives,
> etc. I would have just depended on the Archive::Tar dist but I am
> targeting Perl 5.8 and this would add quite a few non-core
> dependencies.
>
> I would like to add the two of you as authors for
> Archive::Tar::StreamingPile as the code is largely yours. I just
> added some glue here and there and removed pieces not necessary.
> Please let me know what you think of that?
>
> You may browse the code at <http://git.thegrebs.com/?p=Archive-Tar-StreamingPile;a=blob;f=lib/Archive/Tar/StreamingPile.pm
This would require some tweaking to the current code base to add a
constructor that wouldn't 'just' proxy to new() but is backwards
compatible and some option that would make add_file() write to
disk rather than loading another object into memory.
Chris, you think it's possible to retrofit, or is the above approach
to be preferred?
--
Jos Boumans
"Never ask a man what computer he uses. If it's a Mac, he'll
tell you. If it's not, why embarrass him?" - Tom Clancy
> >. I've encluded the rendered POD below as I'm using Pod::Weaver.