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Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages

From:
Stas Bekman
Date:
March 30, 2003 20:32
Subject:
Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages
Message ID:
3E87C4F9.3010709@stason.org
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.

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