On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 09:44 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: > Ken Williams wrote: >> On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 08:36 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: >>> >>> +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? You can create and maintain the META.yml file yourself if you want. PAUSE isn't going to care who creates it. > 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? I don't think difficulty is the issue. The issue is that people don't think that's a very good solution to the problem, and we're trying to come up with a better one. -Ken