Re: Adding a directory with various files to a distribution

Thanks, this is what I ended up doing. I was hoping there was some way
to automate this since the files in the directory in question are
likely to change in the future and I would rather not edit the MANIFEST
manually every time.

--Peter


----- Original Message ----
> From: Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, 23 September, 2009 19:23:17
> Subject: Re: Adding a directory with various files to a distribution
> 
> # from Petar Shangov
> # on Wednesday 23 September 2009 03:14:
> 
> >What is the best way to add a whole directory with various files to a
> > distribution - I want all of these files to be in their own "example"
> > directory in the root directory of the tarball.
> 
> If you add files to the MANIFEST, they will be included in the tarball.  
> If there is any perl code in the directory, you may need to add it 
> to 'no_index' in the meta to keep PAUSE from indexing the .pm files.
> 
> --Eric
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