Comments on: CPAN vs. dot-underscore

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:00:57 +0000

That's a great idea. I'll have to try it with the next release of EVDB::API. I should be able to specify the .DS_Store files in MANIFEST.SKIP, run 'make manifest' to generate the MANIFEST file, and then 'make dist' to create the tarball. MakeMaker should be using Archive::Tar (instead of command-line tar) to do the heavy lifting, so hopefully it won't generat the dot-underscore files. Huh. Learn something new every day. Of course, I would have learned it before if I had taken the time to read a MakeMaker tutorial, but creating all that stuff by hand was good practice. Or something.

By: Sander van Zoest

Sander van Zoest — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 02:35:04 +0000

You could use the ‘manifest’ and ‘dist’ targets to Makefile.PL to create the CPAN tarball based on your MANIFEST file. This will only put the files you have in your manifest file in the tarball.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 04:10:20 +0000

Setting DITTONORSRC had no effect. A quick Google for that variable only turns up the ditto man page… have you seen it in another context?

By: Edward O'Connor

Edward O'Connor — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:03:48 +0000

Try setting your DITTONORSRC environment variable.