Re: [Module::Build] Avoiding Archive::Tar for module building

On approximately 3/1/2004 2:13 PM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Ken Williams:

> 
> On Monday, March 1, 2004, at 04:04  PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> 
>> Now using A::T, the result of perl Build ppmdist  is a .tar.gz file, 
>> but using --tar, it is a .tar file.  Is there another option like 
>> --gzip to supply another program to do the .gz compression, or must 
>> one just do that manually?
> 
> 
> Try it and see. =)

Indeed!

> I'll add this to the docs for the 'dist' action.

Thanks.   And also to the ppmdist action, I presume.

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