On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Marvin Humphrey wrote: > Our canonical release tarballs are pure exports from version control. If we > remove perl/MANIFEST entirely, then anyone who gets Lucy via either a checkout > or a canonical release will get a warning when they run Build.PL.
Correct. > Keeping a dummy file around is a compromise to avoid that problem. If you consider it a problem, yeah. Having it have no files listed will generate other warnings. >> `distclean` runs `distcheck`? WHU? > > http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Module::Build#distclean > > distclean > > [version 0.05] > > Performs the 'realclean' action and then the 'distcheck' action. Huh. I guess I never use either `distclean` or `distcheck`. > I don't believe that there is an analogue for git clean -dxf in svn. If > somebody knows of one, please speak up because I could really use it! (This > is for a different project.) > >> I noticed a lot of generated files there were obviously not svn:ignored. > > To be honest, I've never been good about keeping svn:ignore properties up to > date. It's not part of my workflow. I find it a lot easier to ignore generated files if my VCS also ignores them. Best, David
