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

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Andreas J Koenig wrote:

> >>>>> 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!

That's it, I'm gonna get ya!

>  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.

Yeah, I know the origins.  Sorry for the rant.  I was just frustrated
after spending some time figuring out why every time I changed a file in
the dist dir, I saw changes under the base directory.

Anyway, I think having M::B use the 'cp' mode is fine for now.  Maybe we
can add a 'clean' mode in the future which just copies and doesn't tweak
permissions.


-dave

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