On Saturday 26 March 2005 20:18, Sherzod Ruzmetov wrote:
> There is no use of, nor benefit from keeping "Makefile", "MANIFEST" and
> "META.yml" files under version control.
>
Well, "Makefile" is obviously being generated from Makefile.PL. However,
"MANIFEST" is not. I just tried deleting the MANIFEST, and running "perl
Makefile.PL; make dist". I got an empty distribution. One should maintain
MANIFEST manually.
Thanks for your opinion regarding META.yml.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> These files can be re-genrated easily using default Makefile.PL. They are
> not required during development of the libraries, nor for their proper
> functionality, and are only necessary while distributing them. So keeping
> them in Verson control is pointless.
>
>
> --
> Sherzod
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 1:09 PM
> > To: Perl Module Authors List
> > Subject: Should I keep META.yml under Version Control?
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm maintaining several modules on CPAN:
> >
> > http://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/
> >
> > At the moment I'm using ExtUtils::MakeMaker for all of my modules. It
> > generates and maintains a META.yml file that contains
> > meta-information about
> > the module. At the moment, I'm keeping it in my version
> > control repository.
> > However, it constantly changes and I need to re-commit it there.
> >
> > So my question is: should I keep it there, or is it entirely
> > generated from
> > other files and I can remove it?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Shlomi Fish
> >
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> > Shlomi Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Homepage: http://www.shlomifish.org/
> >
> > Hacker sees bug. Hacker fixes bug.
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