Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test

On Wed 29.Jul'09 at 22:26:15 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:52:24 -0400, "Jerry D. Hedden"
> <jdhedden@cpan.org> wrote:
> 
> > The attached patch adds a test to t/lib/manifest.t to check that the
> > MANIFEST file is properly sorted.  (And guess what?  It isn't.)
> 
> Why rely on external sort, where perl has a more reliable sort itself?

Well, we _are_ using the external sort to do the sorting, rather than
Perl's built sort.

I've been in the process of working over the releng docs. 

Porting/manicheck should definitely be absorbed into this testfile.

It might be worth having the failure mode telling the user to run
"make manisort" to actually fix the problem, too. 

• [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by Jerry D. Hedden
• Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by Jesse Vincent
• Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by H.Merijn Brand
• Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [PATCH] Add MANIFEST sort test by Nicholas Clark