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Frank Think about Loose Coupling  Re: Starting the development
of a module : thoughts  by btrott (Parson) on Jun 29, 2001 at
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are some additional thoughts/steps.    • h2xs automatically
creates a MANIFEST file. I don't use it; I delete it. I like
using 'make manifest', because it automatically generates a
MANIFEST file for me when I want it. To do this, set up a
MANIFEST.SKIP file. Here's an example of a standard one I use:
\bCVS\b ^MANIFEST\. ^Makefile$ ~$ \.old$ ^blib/ ^pm_to_blib$
\.tar\.gz$     With this in place, I don't have to maintain a
list of all my files; 'make manifest' will start at the current
directory and assemble a list of all files not matching the
patterns in MANIFEST.SKIP, then write the names of those files
to MANIFEST.      So, to create a new distribution, I can do:
perl Makefile.PL make man