On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:05:31AM +1100, Ken Williams wrote:
> The EU::Manifest docs say:
> 
>  All files that match any regular expression in a file
>  "MANIFEST.SKIP" (if such a file exists) are ignored.
> 
> But that doesn't quite say what the target of the regex is - the 
> filename only, or the complete path, or the relative path from the root 
> of the tarball?  The latter would seem to make the most sense.

Dunno.  What did the old version do?


> However, maybe my recent "speed up ExtUtils::Manifest" patch broke 
> this?  I think I should probably be matching on the relative paths, not 
> on the bare file-or-directory name.  Right?

The complete relative path would seem most sensible, since it lines up
nicely with what's in MANIFEST.


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