Re^2: What are the files in a CPAN distribution?

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in thread What are the files in a CPAN distribution?

.gitignore and MANIFEST.SKIP serve different purposes.

MANIFEST.SKIP tells the distribution building process (as far as I know EU:MM, M:B and M:I all support it) to skip including certain files in the packaged distribution.
.gitignore (and equivalents for other versioning systems: .hgignore files or svn:ignore properties) tell your version control system to keep particular files out of version control.

It's quite common to have files that are not in version control. but are packaged with the distribution, such as META.yml which might be built on the fly at packaging time. Conversely there are occasions in which you'd want to keep files in your repository but not distribute them - a Devel::Cover database, editor config files (.vimrc), benchmarking scripts, etc. So it's fairly usual to have significant differences between the .gitignore and MANIFEST.SKIP lists.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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