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Ken Williams wrote: > > 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. That works for me. When the format of META.yml is going to be finalized and supported by PAUSE? >> 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. Sure, that's cool with me. So far nobody I haven't heard the arguments against my proposal. But META.yml is quite similar to my proposal, though more general-purpose than mine. What I'm afraid of, is that N moons from now the syntax of META.yml may change to incorporate things that weren't thought about earlier, whereas a simple file ala MANIFEST.SKIP seems like a more robust thing to me. I could be wrong. __________________________________________________________________ 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