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Friday October 18, 2002
08:52 AM

"make disttest" is your friend. use "make disttest"

[ #8442 ]
A very prolific senior contributor to the CPAN recently updated a module that incorporates XS and C files from another distribution. Said contributor completely tested the new distribution, and published it. It broke for me.

Said contributor forgot to check MANIFEST, which needed a new file added.

make disttest is your friend. Use make disttest.

{grin}


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  • I own up - it was me.

    This is probably the second most common thing I forget when uploading new CPAN modules (the first being to update the Changes file). I'm actually considering changing my "make dist" for a "make cpan" which does the whole "disttest" thing and also "cvs ci" and checks the Changes file for a line representative of this version.

    Of course that's all more work I need to do ;-)

    The other problem is that "disttest" is a bit broken (at least on 5.6.1 and all versions below it), because it leav
    • I have not encountered the `make dist` bug that includes old `make disttest` distributions in 5.6.1 or 5.8.0.

      I have fixed most of my stupidity problems with my release script [sourceforge.net]. It tests everything and will not let me release something if anything fails or if CVS is not up-to-date. I have been very happy with it the past month even though I need to add a couple of things. :)
      • Nice script. Possibly the reason you haven't seen this bug is either because it's fixed in 5.6, or because you make dist before you make disttest.
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