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Provides utilities for maintaining and using a MANIFEST file. The MANIFEST file is essentially a packing list, included with a module, so the user who installs the module can be sure that all the files are actually present. The file created by ExtUtils::Manifest is a list of filenames, one per line, with an optional comment on each line.
ExtUtils::Manifest optionally uses a file called MANIFEST.SKIP, which contains regular expressions specifying files that are not to be included in MANIFEST. Manifest also defines two global variables that are used by several of the functions:
Provides six functions, which are exportable on request.
| filecheck |
filecheck
Finds files below the current directory that are not mentioned in the MANIFEST file. Consults MANIFEST.SKIP for files that shouldn't be included.
| fullcheck |
fullcheck
Does both manicheck and filecheck.
| manicheck |
manicheck
Checks whether all files in current directory's MANIFEST file really exist.
| manicopy |
manicopy (read, target, how)
Copies files to a target directory. Takes the following arguments:
| manifind |
manifind
Returns a hash reference whose keys are the files found below the current directory. The values are null strings, representing the MANIFEST comments that aren't there.
| maniread |
maniread ([file])
Reads the MANIFEST file specified in $file (the default is MANIFEST). Returns a hash reference whose keys are the filenames and whose values are the comments. Discards blank lines and lines starting with #.
| mkmanifest |
mkmanifest
Writes the names of all files in and below the current directory to the file in the current directory named in the $ExtUtils::Manifest::MANIFEST variable. Skips files in MANIFEST.SKIP.
| skipcheck |
skipcheck
Lists files that were skipped because they were found in MANIFEST.SKIP.
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