(Fwd) Re: Archive::Zip 1.11

[Mariano Absatz]

Hi people,

Ned Konz, the maintainer of Archive::Zip tells me he has no spare cycles to
continue its development. The other day he sent us (thru Fred Broughton) an
alpha release for 1.11 which I installed and solved my problem.

Other than that, I've done no testing of Archive::Zip nor I think I'd know
what to do...

I'm no perl wizard and compressing is definitively out of my skills. What's
worse, I myself don't have much spare cycles (though I'm still doing Perl,
mostly MailScanner), and I don't have the slightest idea of how CPAN works
other than using it... I don't even know how to make packages.

Is someone out there who does and is able to help testing/releasing
Archive::Zip 1.11?

For one thing, I'm already using it and will be installing it in every
MailScanner installation I have this week, since it solved a major problem.

Julian, do you think it'd be a good idea adding this 'alpha' release to the
next MailScanner release?

Regards.


------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           Ned Konz
To:             "Mariano Absatz" <mailscanner at lists.com.ar>
Subject:        Re: Archive::Zip 1.11
Date:           Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:53:55 -0700
CC:             Fred Broughton <phred at SVERICA.COM>,
        Julian Field <mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

On Wednesday 30 June 2004 4:04 pm, Mariano Absatz wrote:

> do you have a timeframe for publishing Archive::Zip 1.11?

I don't know. It could be as simple as putting it up on CPAN, but since I've
changed several parts of it, I'd prefer to get some more testers.

On the other hand, since I don't use Perl or A::Z any more, I'm not likely to
test it more myself.

> I have a large MailScanner installation (from where I got the sample
> corrupt zip file we used for testing today) that I want to upgrade... but
> I'm a little scary with the 'alpha1' status.
<SNIP>
I can name it something else, or just upload it to CPAN. It's just that I have
no free cycles to fix it or even to respond to support emails.

> So I'd simply like to know how you feel about the release cycle for this
> new version in order to decide what to do.

I'd *really* like to have some testers. However, if I put it up on CPAN as
1.11 then people will start using it in production systems. I believe that
there's a numbering scheme for non-release versions there.

Suggestions?

> Thanx a lot for your prompt patch today.

No problem.


--
Mariano Absatz
El Baby
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Programming is a Dark Art, and it will always be. The programmer is
fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe:
entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always
overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule.
        -- Damian Conway, Perl Guru

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