July 2011 Archives

How to get rid of withoutworldwriteables?

When you upload module to CPAN, PAUSE checks that archive does not contain world writable files, because if If files are found, PAUSE creates modified archive, with correct permissions and uploads it with the same name, only "-withoutworldwriteables" is added. Usually such archives are created by tar on Windows, but they can be created on Linux too - it depends on permissions of files on authors hard drive.

Solution of this problem depends on which module framework you are using.

Module::Build version 0.31 creates…

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