David Golden <xda...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
I think I stumbled over that. It does no longer happen. Maybe the heuristics could be improved or a question asked before deleting a MANIFEST.SKIP which differs from the one it would generate by itself (via md5sum or similar). This could solve confusion like I experienced. Anyway, thanks for the answers. Kind regards, Steffen -- Steffen Schwigon <s...@renormalist.net> Dresden Perl Mongers <http://dresden-pm.org/>
