Re: [Module::Build] [PATCH] ppm_dist action

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, January 14, 2004, at 11:01  PM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 1/14/2004 3:39 PM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of Randy W. Sims:
>
>> The contents of the 'MANIFEST.SKIP' file are a series of regular 
>> expressions, one per line, that if matched to a file /path/ while 
>> scanning the distribution directory, will be omitted from the 
>> 'MANIFEST' file. (Maybe the above list should automatically be added 
>> to the skip list?)
>
> Yes, particularly if MANIFEST.SKIP doesn't exist, I think using that 
> list would be an excellant option.  Many simple modules wouldn't even 
> need a MANIFEST.SKIP in that case.

Yeah, MakeMaker does something like that, maybe we should too.


> dist - seemed like it should work for PPD on Windows platform.  Now 
> that ppm_dist exists this might not be so confusing.

I'm actually not quite sure where you got this impression - the 
documentation for the "dist" action says this:

  This action is helpful for module authors who want to package up their
  module for distribution through a medium like CPAN.  It will create a
  tarball of the files listed in F<MANIFEST> and compress the tarball 
using
  GZIP compression.

  -Ken