Software Version Description for Tie::Gzip - gzip with a small memory footprint Revision: E Version: 0.06 Date: 2004/04/16 Prepared for: General Public Prepared by: SoftwareDiamonds.com E<lt>support@SoftwareDiamonds.comE<gt> Copyright: copyright © 2003 Software Diamonds Classification: NONE
This paragraph identifies and provides an overview of the released files.
This release, identified in 3.2, is a collection of Perl modules that extend the capabilities of the Perl language.
The 'Tie::Gzip' module provides a file handle Tie for compressing and uncompressing files using the gzip format.
By tieing a filehandle to 'Tie::Gzip' subsequent uses of the file subroutines with the tied filehandle will compress data written to an opened file using gzip compression and decompress data read from an opened file using gzip compression.
If the 'Tie::Gzip' tie receives a filename or mode filename after completing the tie, 'Tie::Gzip' will open filename.
During the tie, Tie::Gzip will first try to load the 'Compress::Zlib' module and package. If successful, 'Tie::Gzip' uses the 'Compress::Zlib' for compressing and decompressing the file data.
If unsuccessful, 'Tie::Gzip' setups up the following pipes to an anticipated GNU 'gzip' site command for compressing and decompressing the file data:
gzip --decompress --stdout {} | # read file data | gzip --stdout > {} # write file data
where the string '{}' is a placeholder for the filename.
This document releases Tie::Gzip version 0.06 providing a description of the inventory, installation instructions and other information necessary to utilize and track this release.
All file specifications in this SVD use the Unix operating system file specification.
This document releases the file
Tie-Gzip-0.06.tar.gz
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The content of the released, compressed, archieve file, consists of the following files:
file version date comment ------------------------------------------------------------ ------- ---------- ------------------------ lib/Docs/Site_SVD/Tie_Gzip.pm 0.06 2004/04/16 revised 0.05 MANIFEST 0.06 2004/04/16 generated, replaces 0.05 Makefile.PL 0.06 2004/04/16 generated, replaces 0.05 README 0.06 2004/04/16 generated, replaces 0.05 lib/Tie/Gzip.pm 1.15 2004/04/16 revised 1.14 t/Tie/Gzip.pm 0.05 2004/04/16 revised 0.04 t/Tie/Gzip.t 0.04 2004/04/16 revised 0.03 t/Tie/Gzip.d 0.04 2004/04/16 revised 0.03 t/Tie/File/Package.pm 1.16 2004/04/16 unchanged t/Tie/File/SmartNL.pm 1.13 2004/04/16 unchanged t/Tie/Test/Tech.pm 1.2 2004/04/16 revised 1.19 t/Tie/Data/Secs2.pm 1.17 2004/04/16 revised 1.16 t/Tie/Data/SecsPack.pm 0.02 2004/04/16 unchanged t/Tie/gzip0.htm 0.06 2004/04/16 unchanged
Changes are as follows
Originated
Installed Mark Scarton's engineering change request per below e-mail:
From: Mark.Scarton@FranklinCovey.com Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:23:37 -0700
In the 'lib/Tie/Gzip.pm' module of the Tie-Gzip-0.01 package, the open of the pipe ("gzip --decompress --stdout |") is failing due to the reference to $! in the conditional. As a test, I cleared $! before issuing the open call as follows:
Line 124: ############### # Some perls will return a glob and a warning # for certain pipe errors such as the command # not a recognized command # $! = 0; ### MAS ### my $success = open PIPE, $pipe; if($! || !$success) { warn "Could not pipe $pipe: $!\n"; $self->CLOSE; return undef; } Line 167: ############### # Some perls will return a glob and a warning # for certain pipe errors such as the command # not a recognized command # $! = 0; ### MAS ### my $success = open PIPE, $pipe; if($! || !$success) { warn "Could not pipe $pipe: $!\n"; $self->CLOSE; return undef; }
This works. Prior to making this change, test 6 of Gzip.t would fail.
According to the Learning Perl O'Reilly book,
"But if you use die to indicate an error that is not the failure of a system request, don't include $!, since it will generally hold an unrelated message left over from something Perl did internally. It will hold a useful value only immediately after a failed system request. A successful request won't leave anything useful there."
So $! is only sourced when a system error occurs and it is not cleared prior to the call. If no error occurs, the value is indeterminate.
prerequisite program because loaded the Data::Secs2 test modules to tlib\Test instead of tlib\Data.
The lastest build of Test::STDmaker expects the test library in the same directory as the test script. Coordiated with the lastest Test::STDmaker by moving the test library from tlib to t/Tie, the same directory as the test script and deleting the test library File::TestPath program module.
http://ppm.activestate.com/BuildStatus/5.8-linux/linux-5.8/Tie-Gzip-0.03.txt
has the following failures:
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/cpanrun/tmp/5.8.0/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/Tie/Gzip.t t/Tie/Gzip....Could not pipe | gzip --stdout > Gzip1.htm.gz: Illegal seek Could not pipe gzip --decompress --stdout Gzip1.htm.gz |: Illegal seek Could not pipe gzip --decompress --stdout Gzip1.htm.gz |: Illegal seek # Cannot open <Gzip1.htm # Test 9 got: '' (t/Tie/Gzip.t at line 319) # Expected: '<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> [snip] FAILED test 9 Failed 1/11 tests, 90.91% okay (less 5 skipped tests: 5 okay, 45.45%) Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 1/11 subtests failed, 90.91% okay. Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/Tie/Gzip.t 11 1 9.09% 9 5 subtests skipped.
The test script is not right and this is a false failure. The test script uses the <Test:Tech> features to force the ok and skip to perform a skip. However, this does not work for Perl code outside the ok and skip subroutines. Added test code to skip outside the ok and skip subroutines.
ok
skip
The distribution Tie::Gzip-0.04 failed acrossed many systems. Very strange since it passes as follows:
Tie::Gzip-0.04
PASSED: # Running under perl version 5.006001 for MSWin32 # Win32::BuildNumber 635 FAILED: t/Tie/Gzip....Bareword "gz_package" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at t/Tie/Gzip.t line 265. Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.22-4tr, archname=i586-linux Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.8, archname=sun4-solaris-thread-multi Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=7.2.0, archname=ppc-darwin-thread-multi
The failure is real. Placed the ommitted $ in front of gz_package and try again.
All the Unix machines are failing as follows:
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at t/Tie/Gzip.t line 243. # Cannot open <gzip0.htm Use of uninitialized value in string eq at t/Tie/Gzip.t line 296. # Cannot open <gzip0.htm FAILED tests 9, 11 Failed 2/11 tests, 81.82% okay
The reason is the the test script uses gzip0.htm while the distribution file is t/Tie/Gzip0.htm. The difference in capitalition causes failures on operation system with case sensitive file specifitions.
gzip0.htm
Change the distribution file to t/Tie/gzip0.htm. Added steps to the beginning of the test scripts to ensure that t/Tie/Gzip.t can read gzip0.htm so that do not have to spent time analyzing what went work.
t/Tie/gzip0.htm
t/Tie/Gzip.t
This installation requires that the installation site has the Perl programming language installed. There are no other additional requirements or tailoring needed of configurations files, adaptation data or other software needed for this installation particular to any installation site.
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Right click on 'Tie-Gzip-0.06.tar.gz' and download to a temporary installation directory. Enter the following where $make is 'nmake' for microsoft windows; otherwise 'make'.
gunzip Tie-Gzip-0.06.tar.gz tar -xf Tie-Gzip-0.06.tar perl Makefile.PL $make test $make install
On Microsoft operating system, nmake, tar, and gunzip must be in the exeuction path. If tar and gunzip are not install, download and install unxutils from
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1 POD Error
The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:
Non-ASCII character seen before =encoding in '©'. Assuming CP1252
To install Tie::Gzip, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Tie::Gzip
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Tie::Gzip
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.