* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 08:40:51PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > On Saturday 26 March 2005 20:18, Sherzod Ruzmetov wrote: > > > There is no use of, nor benefit from keeping "Makefile", "MANIFEST" and > > > "META.yml" files under version control. > > > > > > > Well, "Makefile" is obviously being generated from Makefile.PL. However, > > "MANIFEST" is not. I just tried deleting the MANIFEST, and running "perl > > Makefile.PL; make dist". I got an empty distribution. One should maintain > > MANIFEST manually. > > make manifest
Of course, `make manifest` *assumes* a bunch of not be accurate.. I have modules with test files that I don't want in the distribution, since hey only run in my machine, for instance. > > Thanks for your opinion regarding META.yml. > > You can manually add information to META.yml which cannot be generated > automatically. If you do so, then keeping it under version control is > sensible. > > -- > Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pjcj.net -- Jose Alves de Castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://jose-castro.org/
