 in thread What are the files in a CPAN distribution?  My
general position on this is that the CPAN distribution is not
the development tree; the CPAN distribution is a product of the
development tree.  My repo may contain a bunch of extra files
(author tests, Devel::Cover output, benchmarking scripts, etc)
which are not included in the distro. And similarly the
distribution will contain a bunch of auto-generated files (like
META.yml, Changes, LICENSE, etc) that I have no desire to check
into my repo.  However if I go under a bus tomorrow and somebody
else needs to pick up the distro, they don't actually need any
of that stuff. They could just download the tarball, extract the
files, make a few changes, bump the version numbers, and then
use tar to create a new tarball, and upload it.  OK, that might
seem like a pain for them not to be able to use the author
tests, etc I have in my repo, but actually if you think about
it, it makes it easier for them to transition the distribution
to their own build tools. Th