On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 11:21:46AM -0700, Stas Bekman wrote:
> >This creates the existance of a file which isn't in the MANIFEST yet
> >gets shipped when you say "make dist" creating an exception to
> >what the MANIFEST does.  You now have a file that you can't stop shipping 
> >even if you remove it from the MANIFEST.
> 
> Heh, but if 'make dist' adds it to MANIFEST in any case, isn't it the same 
> as putting it into a distro even if it's not listed in MANIFEST? No matter 
> what you do, you end up with META.yaml shipped. I just tried that. So why 
> changing MANIFEST?

There are things other than "make dist" which rely on the MANIFEST format and
use ExtUtils::Manifest.  Module::Build, for example.


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...and that, children, is how to clean and load a .38 revolver.  Questions?

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