GitHub user jeking3 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1441
THRIFT-4416: Automate and fix CPAN packaging * Ensures only necessary files are in the manifest. * Ensures that META.json has the syntactic sugar to properly index Thrift as a single package. * Shell script is now designed to be run inside one of the docker images, grabbing some things from CPAN to ensure a solid delivery. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/jeking3/thrift THRIFT-4416 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/1441.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1441 ---- commit 985ee2eb0509b219e4f0df8605ce8af6abeaf71c Author: James E. King, III <jk...@apache.org> Date: 2017-12-09T15:10:03Z THRIFT-4416: fixed up CPAN module creation and automated all steps except for upload to CPAN Client: perl This closes #1441 ---- ---