On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:04:50AM +1100, Stas Bekman wrote: > First of all, is that how indexer works today?
Apparently yes. > Is that documented as a public "interface", so it won't change in the > future? > Second, as Autrijus followed up, it seems that it's not going to be inc. I love the name 'inc', but I am open to other reasonable suggestions before PAUSE deem it a public interface. But whatever the final name is, it is imho useful (and not really klugy) to have the indexer ignore specific directories like t/ (and possibly inc/), without needing to specify it manually via BUNDLED. > We introduce a new file called BUNDLED (similar to MANIFEST), which will > list all the packages that are bundled and are to be ignored by the > indexer. This solution is simple, and gives a full control to developers, > if at some point in the future they decide to split one of the modules into > a separate package, while keeping it bundled with the previous hosting > package, all they need to do is to add this module name (actually file > path) to the file BUNDLED, and release it on CPAN. This sounds like a Very Good idea so users of Module::Install can choose to use whatever prefix they want, instead the inc:: prefix. So... should BUNDLED use the MANIFEST.SKIP syntax (i.e. "^inc/") or the MANIFEST syntax (list files explicitly)? I'd think that the regex approach is easier to use, with no obvious drawbacks. Thanks, /Autrijus/
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