Re: Re: Re: Archive::Tar Memory Consumption

...actually, I think that Archive::Tar is a Pure Perl module, but it uses (though does not depend upon) another module for gzip compression which is binary and requires compilation.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Archive::Tar Memory Consumption by bart (Canon) on Aug 23, 2002 at 00:04 UTC
..actually, I think that Archive::Tar is a Pure Perl module, but it uses (though does not depend upon) another module for gzip compression which is binary and requires compilation. Indeed it does: Compress::Zlib. But development of this module is independendent of that of Archive::Tar. Comparing Activestate's version with the most recent one on CPAN, you can see that they're both the same version: 1.16. So there's no problem about that. Update: Ah, damned: the above URL to Activestate's package again doesn't include a port for Win32. The other, older repository does, but is only at version 1.08.	[reply]
Re^4: Archive::Tar Memory Consumption by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 22, 2002 at 13:09 UTC
That would be Compress::Zlib, FYI. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]