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Ken Williams wrote: > > On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:36 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: > >> The more I think about it the more I like my latest idea. I'm going to >> expand on it in this post as I think it may do more things than just >> solving the bundling problem. >> >> What I'm proposing is to have a mechanism similar to /robots.txt in >> the HTTP protocol, where '/' is the root of the web server namespace >> So now we have "the CPAN indexer protocol" and we introduce /INDEX, >> where / is the top-level directory of a given package. >> >> /INDEX provides a way for a package to tell the indexer what it wants >> to be exposed and/or what not. We can work out a simple syntax, like: >> >> +lib/ # expose all packages under lib/ >> -lib/private.pm # but exclude lib/private.pm >> +lib2/Foo.pm # expose lib2/Foo.pm > > > Module::Build may soon do something like this, though not in as though not > in as fancy/complex a way. it doesn't have to be fancy/complex. To my immediate need a file with explicit listing of all the files to be listed will suffice. [...] What happens to the modules which don't use Module::Build, but use EU::MM? I need to release Apache::Test on CPAN and I can't do that, because of the bundling problem. I don't know how many man-months very spent on writing the current mod_perl 2.0's build, and while it'd be cool to move to Module::Build it'll take a *lot* of time. Really, why that should be such a big problem to filter out files which are listed in a given skip list file? __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:stas@stason.org http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com