Comments on: How To Tell That CPAN Testers Is Doing Its Job http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/16/how-to-tell-that-cpan-testers-is-doing-its-job/ A preponderance of Perl, an excess of XML, and additional alliterations. Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:50:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Joel http://www.dereferenced.com/2011/08/16/how-to-tell-that-cpan-testers-is-doing-its-job/comment-page-1/#comment-1103 Joel Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:21:22 +0000 http://www.dereferenced.com/?p=181#comment-1103 I feel into the trap of running `make dist` without a MANIFEST file. While I would think that it should die and give a big warning, it instead produces and appropriately named .tar.gz file. Sadly its contents are only an error message. I know I have released at least one of these stunted dists, and I'm sure others have too. Grrrr. And yes now I know why `make disttest` exists, but when `make test` succeeds and `make dist` succeeds, I say "release"! Oh well. I feel into the trap of running `make dist` without a MANIFEST file. While I would think that it should die and give a big warning, it instead produces and appropriately named .tar.gz file. Sadly its contents are only an error message.

I know I have released at least one of these stunted dists, and I’m sure others have too. Grrrr.

And yes now I know why `make disttest` exists, but when `make test` succeeds and `make dist` succeeds, I say “release”! Oh well.

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