NAME Archive::Libarchive::Any - Perl bindings to libarchive VERSION version 0.06 SYNOPSIS use Archive::Libarchive::Any; DESCRIPTION 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). 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 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.