"Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@[...].au>  writes:

>  Can a 'ppm install' be easily made to work if the blib is compressed into a
>  'tar.bz2' instead of the usual 'tar.gz'?

ppm let the Archive::Tar module do the unpacking.  If somebody provide
a patch to Archive::Tar to support .tar.bz2 archives this should be
trivial.

>  If not, are there any plans to provide such an option ?
>  
>  I'm having trouble uploading a 5.7 megabyte binary to a particular server.
>  It occurs to me that if the blib could be placed into a 'tar.bz2', then the
>  file would be significantly smaller and this particular problem would
>  probably go away.

How much smaller does it get in your case?  I looked at the perl-5.8.8
tarballs and they only get about 20% smaller when compressed with
bzip2.  Is that enough to make a difference to you?

$ ls -l /opt/perl/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.8*z*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gisle users 10123359 Feb  1  2006 /opt/perl/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5
.8.8.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 gisle users 12829188 Feb  1  2006 /opt/perl/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5
.8.8.tar.gz

Regards,
Gisle Aas,
ActiveState
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