Sounds good. But doesn't MakeMaker have some pre-canned "compare and move only if different" logic that might be useful here?
Tim. On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:58:43PM -0800, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Ok, the snapshot on makemaker.org has a fix for the problem of read-only > META.yml files. It will now... > > * print that its "Generating META.yml" > * Write the information to META_new.yml > * Try to move META_new.yml to META.yml. Should this fail it will warn > "Cannot move META_new.yml to META.yml" but otherwise ignore the error. > > The error message could probably use some work, but this should at least > let "make dist" continue with a read-only META.yml. > > Also I've changed metafile_addtomanifest so it lets you know what's going > on by printing "Adding META.yml to MANIFEST". > > I'm one of those blessed with a filesystem that will let you overwrite a > read-only file owned by yourself, so I can't really check that this works. > > Thoughts? > > > -- > Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ > Look! Defenseless babies!
