Archive::Zip 1.15 error

[David Lee]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Devon Harding wrote:

> For some reason, I cannot install Archive::Zip 1.15 from CPAN. It fails with
> the following error & MailScanner wont start without it.
>
> Running make test
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e"
> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/00.load...........ok 2/2# Testing Archive::Zip 1.15, Perl 5.008005,
> /usr/bin/perl
> t/00.load...........ok
> t/pod...............ok
> t/test..............ok
> t/testex............ok
> t/testMemberRead....ok
> t/testTree..........ok
> t/testUpdate........ok
> t/za_archive_zip....NOK 15# Failed test (t/za_archive_zip.t at line 42)
> t/za_archive_zip....NOK 16# Failed test (t/za_archive_zip.t at line 43)
> # got: 'IO::File=GLOB(0x835d4ac)'
> # expected: undef
> t/za_archive_zip....NOK 17# Failed test (t/za_archive_zip.t at line 44)
> # got: 'ziptest/Zzfdvn9bQT.zip'
> # expected: undef
> t/za_archive_zip....NOK 19# Failed test (t/za_archive_zip.t at line 46)
> # got: '0'
> # expected: '1'
> # Directory not empty
> t/za_archive_zip....NOK 20# Failed test (t/za_archive_zip.t at line 47)
> t/za_archive_zip....ok 22/0# Looks like you failed 5 tests of 22.
> [...]

Very similar at our site (both Linux/FC3 and Sun/Solaris9).

So it seems that there is a systematic problem with version "1/15".  It 
might be prudent for Julian's distributions to stay on 1.14 for the 
moment.

Meanwhile...

Almost a year ago (July 2004), I spent a long time chasing and debugging 
Archive::Zip and the maintainer (Ned Konz) consequently fixed that 
particular set of problems at that time, which resulted in version 1.14.
(The curious can find a "tip of the iceberg" of this process in the MS 
archives.)

It seems that maintenance of this A::Z module has passed to another 
person.  And reading the "Changes" file of his 1.15 version, there is a 
curious absence of detail between 1.10 and (his) 1.15.  (I suspect, but 
don't know, that this 1.15 set of problems is different from last year's.)

This is, of course, a little depressing; I don't particularly want to have 
to go through all that sort of process again (chasing, debugging and 
negotiating a fix with its author).  But also, for family reasons, even if 
I wanted to, I am unable at present (unlike last year) to be able to do 
this reliably on behalf of the MS community.

I'm sure it would be really helpful to us all if someone could take this 
up, on our (MS community's and Julian's) behalf, with the new author of 
A::Z.


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