Hi I just wanted to chip in that a MANIFEST.SKIP can be recreated using the build manifest step
./Build manifest jonasbn -- AIM: BjonasN Gtalk: jona...@gmail.com ICQ: 62401545 MSN: jona...@io.dk twitter: jonasbn blog: http://e-diot.dk/ On 15/04/2010, at 15.52, David Golden wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> > wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I did not expect that my MANIFEST.SKIP file (either self-written or >> auto-generated) gets deleted during ./Build distclean. >> >> What is the rationale behind that? >> I couldn't read that out of the documentation. > > The only reason MANIFEST.SKIP should be deleted is if Module::Build > created it because you didn't have one. In that case, it would > actually get removed with "Build clean" (which distclean calls). > > There is a subtle wrinkle that the cleanup list that "Build clean" > uses is persistent until distclean or realclean. > > So you need to run 'Build realclean', then create your MANIFEST.SKIP, > then run 'perl Build.PL', etc. as normal. > > -- David
