Re: MANIFEST.SKIP deleted on distclean?

[email protected] (Eric Wilhelm) Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:11:44 -0700

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# from David Golden
# on Friday 16 April 2010 10:54:

>On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Eric Wilhelm <[email protected]> 
wrote:
>> Or, dirty hacks:
>>
>>  my $orig = \&ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip;
>>  local *ExtUtils::Manifest::maniskip = sub {
>
>-1   Dirty hacks lead to maintenance headaches later.

> # But before Eric wrote that, he said:
>>Or replace ExtUtils::Manifest with something that doesn't use the 
>>filesystem as its primary API?

Dancing around some old clunky code that just looks like a pile of 
monkey patches swinging from a tree of assumptions is a lot more 
maintainable than a pile of monkey patches to make it take input via 
variables instead of the filesystem?

--Eric
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