On Sunday, Sep 1, 2002, at 18:10 Asia/Tokyo, Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > Apparently I'm missing something. 'make manifest' is only good for the > expert, because you need to know which lines you have to delete from > MANIFEST after running 'make manifest'. That's not obvious. If you > know a trivial way to write a correct MANIFEST file, I'd be grateful > if you could add it. Maybe then some of my documentation changes are > not needed.
Right. MANIFEST generation is not as trivial as it looks and 'make manifest' does it trivially-too trivially.... [snip] >> But I am not so happy if enc2xs becomes behemoth like h2xs. Man, I >> thought I had soothed all the feeping creaturism before the release of >> 5.8.0.... > > Please see if the patch below makes it a behemoth. It does just the > following: > > Add Usage(). > Add Version(). > Add -h and -v. > Die on an insufficient commandline. > Removed @ARGV from the arguments to call the to make_configlocal_pm(). > Document what find_e2x does in a comment. > Speed up find_e2x considerably. > Tweak documentation. Thank you. Now your patch is in my repository. But since we are not in urgency, I would like to wait for NI-XS for his tweaks/fix for 'use encoding "utf8"' workaround. Besides, I am a little busy taming Jaguar right now... Dan the Encode Maitainer.
