[Module::Build] Re: CPAN Upload: Y/YV/YVES/ExtUtils-Install-1.38.tar.gz

[demerphq <dem...@gm...>]

On 4/9/06, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rga...@gm...> wrote:
> On 09/04/06, demerphq <dem...@gm...> wrote:
> > Notable changes are better Win32 support for in-use files, and support
> > for an INSTALL.SKIP file to prevent stuff being installed that
> > shouldnt be. This should be particularly useful for folks that use SVN
> > and would like to be able to do an install directly from their working
> > directory without install svn directories into their perl module tree.
>
> How does the purpose of this file differ from the one of MANIFEST.SKIP ?

ExtUtils::Install::install() pays no attention to MANIFEST.SKIP and never h=
as.

MANIFEST.SKIP is to prevent stuff from getting added to MANIFEST when
you do something like

  make manifest

which is a distinct process from installation.Installation is
performed by doing stuff like moving all files under one path to
another path, INSTALL.SKIP allows you to prevent specific filetypes or
files from being included in such a process.

Examples uses for this could be on Win32 to filter out the
installation of XS/C compilation byproduct like *.pdb. I personally
use it for stuff like preventing .bak from getting installed and for
keeping .svn out of my site/lib tree.

In ex-ExtUtils-Install-1.3702 I made the mistake of letting
MANIFEST.SKIP be used when no INSTALL.SKIP was present but this
prevented some packages from installing as their MANIFEST.SKIP
contained the patter /blib/ which as it is in most install source
paths meant that nothing would get installed at all. 1.38 fixes this
problem by using INSTALL.SKIP only, but allows
EU_INSTALL_SITE_SKIPFILE to be set to a site specific file for generic
use.

Cheers,
Yves


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