Re: [Module-build-general] dist dir is just symlinks?!

[Andreas J K. <and...@an...>]

>>>>> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:44:56 -0500 (CDT), Dave Rolsky <au...@ur...> said:

 dr> Bleah, that sucks!  Whoever wrote EU::Manifest needs to be beaten.

Me, Me!

 dr> Here's a good one.  If you set the copying method to 'cp' it changes the
 dr> permissions on the copied files to remove write permission.  Just
 dr> brilliant, really.  After all, it's inconceivable that anyone might need
 dr> to ever alter these files.

I apologise for not documenting this behaviour. But please consider
the age of the code base and the original target audience. I wrote it
~7 years ago and the only place it was used was for the 'make dist'
target of MakeMaker. At that time everybody agreed that we should
C<chmod -w> all files in a distribution file for CPAN.

-- 
andreas