Test::CheckManifest

version 1.24

  use Test::CheckManifest;
  ok_manifest();

Test::CheckManifest

There is only one method exported: ok_manifest

Test::CheckManifest - Check if your Manifest matches your distro

checks whether the Manifest file matches the distro or not. To match a distro the Manifest has to name all files that come along with the distribution.

To check the Manifest file, this module searches for a file named MANIFEST.

To exclude some directories from this test, you can specify these dirs in the hashref.

  ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test/']});

is ok if the files in /path/to/your/dist/var/test/ are not named in the MANIFEST file. That means that the paths in the exclude array must be "pseudo-absolute" (absolute to your distribution).

To use a "filter" you can use the key "filter"

  ok_manifest({filter => [qr/\.svn/]});

With that you can exclude all files with an '.svn' in the filename or in the path from the test.

These files would be excluded (as examples):

* /dist/var/.svn/test

* /dist/lib/test.svn

You can also combine "filter" and "exclude" with 'and' or 'or' default is 'or':

  ok_manifest({exclude => ['/var/test'], 
               filter  => [qr/\.svn/], 
               bool    => 'and'});

These files have to be named in the MANIFEST:

* /var/foo/.svn/any.file

* /dist/t/file.svn

* /var/test/test.txt

These files not:

* /var/test/.svn/*

* /var/test/file.svn

Beside filter and exclude there is another way to exclude files: MANIFEST.SKIP. This is a file with filenames that should be excluded:

  t/my_very_own.t
  file_to.skip

Great thanks to Christopher H. Laco, who did a lot of testing stuff for me and he reported some bugs to RT.

Renee Baecker, <module@renee-baecker.de>

Copyright (C) 2006 - 2011 by Renee Baecker

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Artistic License 2.0

Renee Baecker <module@renee-baecker.de>

This software is Copyright (c) 2011 by Renee Baecker.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0