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

[Nick Ing-S. <ni...@in...>]

Demerphq <dem...@gm...> writes:
>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 =
has.

And shouldn't.

In many cases they are inverses!

It is quite reasonable to have something in MANIFEST.SKIP because the=20
build process generates it e.g. exclude Foo when there is a Foo.PL that bui=
lds
it. When you install though you may want to install generated Foo but NOT=
=20
Foo.PL (and later can look like something to install Foo.pl on case ignorin=
g=20
systems.)


>
>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