Re: moving all generated files to $distdir

Dave Rolsky <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:03:11 -0500 (CDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.module-build
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, David Golden wrote:

> What do people think about changing M::B's default behavior to
> generate all content (Makefile.PL, META.yml, README, LICENSE) in the
> "distdir" generated directory rather than in the top source directory?

In theory, it sounds good. I do wonder if this would require _always_ 
generating the manifest a the same time though.

I do find having the generated files in the regular dir annoying, because 
then I have to tell my VCS to ignore them.

-dave

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