# New Ticket Created by Will Coleda # Please include the string: [perl #41386] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=41386 >
... at least in the repository. The primary purpose of the MANFEST is to make sure that the generated release isn't missing any files, neh? So, when you're working out of the repository, you already know the canonical list. This can be handled when the release is generated: having this check run on every configure by default complicates the process of patching; the tool developed to simplify this doesn't work with non checked in files; resulting, many times, in 2 commits, one to add the files to the repository, then a cleanup of the MANIFEST. Ditto MANIFEST.skip (use svn:ignore keyword). There are many places that use MANIFEST that'd need to be updated to avoid its use when working out of the repo. (Or those tasks can be migrated to a release-only timeframe).
