On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> wrote: > Hi! > > I did not expect that my MANIFEST.SKIP file (either self-written or > auto-generated) gets deleted during ./Build distclean. > > What is the rationale behind that? > I couldn't read that out of the documentation.
The only reason MANIFEST.SKIP should be deleted is if Module::Build created it because you didn't have one. In that case, it would actually get removed with "Build clean" (which distclean calls). There is a subtle wrinkle that the cleanup list that "Build clean" uses is persistent until distclean or realclean. So you need to run 'Build realclean', then create your MANIFEST.SKIP, then run 'perl Build.PL', etc. as normal. -- David
