It's up to the tar utility of the user who downloads the tar.gz to handle the text files appropriately when unpacking the archive.
That sounds weird. I had half and half expected that the tar utility would handle it, when creating the .tar(.gz) file. But apparently, it doesn't, as the CRs are present in the archive.

But, it still feels like a more reasonable expectation to me, because you (and your make) knows what platform you're on when building the archive, so converting it to a common format is easy. The client has less info, he doesn't actually know what platform it originates from, so converting it from whatever into his own native format involves more guesswork.

In reply to Re^2: make dist (ExtUtils::MakeMaker) on Windows stores text files with DOS line endings in .tar.gz archive by bart
in thread make dist (ExtUtils::MakeMaker) on Windows stores text files with DOS line endings in .tar.gz archive by bart

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