[Bioperl-l] BioPerl 1.6 RC1

[Chris Fields]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:59 PM, Sendu Bala wrote:

> Christopher Fields wrote:
>>> Chris: I note that extraneous files like 'test.txt' and others made
>>> it into the RC1 .tar.gz you uploaded. What I always did was a clean
>>> export of the tag and built from there. BTW, the dist action also
>>> warns you about modules with their own version:
>>> Bio::DB::GFF::Aggregator::orf in this case. You might want to
>>> investigate that.
>> I noticed that it's packaging up everything in the local directory,
>> yes (that was after the upload unfortunately).  That'll be fixed for
>> RC2; I'll look for a more amenable fix when I get back (a packlist of
>> files would work around this, but I'm not sure how well that will
>> work with a large distro like BioPerl).
>
> No, no, it wouldn't work at all. The dist action is what /generates/  
> the 'packlist' (MANIFEST) - we don't want to have to manually  
> specify anything because it would be too easy to forget to add new  
> files and there would be no obvious indication anything was left out  
> of a distribution. It's very important this remain automatic and  
> fool proof.
>
> It should package up everything under version control. Only if there  
> are things under version control that we don't want packaged should / 
> exceptions/ manually be added (MANIFEST.SKIP, ne Build.PL).
>
> Again, all you have to and should do is build from a fresh export of  
> the tag, not from your normal working directory. You should never do  
> that in any case, because you might have been working on a module  
> and have uncommitted changes.

My bad, that'll be rectified for the next RC release.

chris