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

[Glenn L. <pe...@ne...>]

On approximately 1/15/2004 6:10 AM, came the following characters from
the keyboard of Ken Williams:

> 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.

Yep, that's *precisely* what confused me.  "a medium like CPAN"... PPM, 
from 10,000 or so feet, might be considered "a medium like CPAN"...

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Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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