NAME

(Deprecated) Archive::Libarchive::Any - Perl bindings to libarchive

VERSION

version 0.0901

SYNOPSIS

use Archive::Libarchive::Any;

DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This module has been deprecated in favor of Archive::Libarchive. It provides a better thought out object-oriented interface and is easier to maintain.

This module provides bindings for libarchive using either Archive::Libarchive::XS or Archive::Libarchive::FFI. The interface is identical either way.

The preference and install and run time is at the discretion of the author of this distribution, and is subject to change with reasonable notice in the documentation and Changes file.

Generally the XS version will be preferred, and the FFI version will be used if the XS version is unavailable.

If you set the environment variable ARCHIVE_LIBARCHIVE_ANY to XS or FFI it will prefer that implementation over the other (this is used both at install and runtime).

SUPPORT

If you find bugs, please open an issue on the project GitHub repository:

https://github.com/plicease/Archive-Libarchive-Any/issues?state=open

If you have a fix, please open a pull request. You can see the CONTRIBUTING file for traps, hints and pitfalls.

SEE ALSO

The intent of this module is to provide a low level fairly thin direct interface to libarchive, on which a more Perlish OO layer could easily be written.

Archive::Libarchive::XS

Archive::Libarchive::FFI

Both of these provide the same API to libarchive via Alien::Libarchive, but the bindings are implemented in XS for one and via FFI::Sweet for the other.

Archive::Libarchive::Any

Offers whichever is available, either the XS or FFI version. The actual algorithm as to which is picked is subject to change, depending on with version seems to be the most reliable.

Archive::Peek::Libarchive

Archive::Extract::Libarchive

Both of these provide a higher level, less complete perlish interface to libarchive.

Archive::Tar

Archive::Tar::Wrapper

Just some of the many modules on CPAN that will read/write tar archives.

Archive::Zip

Just one of the many modules on CPAN that will read/write zip archives.

Archive::Any

A module attempts to read/write multiple formats using different methods depending on what perl modules are installed, and preferring pure perl modules.

AUTHOR

Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Graham Ollis.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.