/ 
Test-CheckManifest-1.43
River stage two • 59 direct dependents • 83 total dependents
/ Test::CheckManifest

NAME

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

VERSION

version 1.43

SYNOPSIS

use Test::CheckManifest;
ok_manifest();

EXPORT

There is only one method exported: ok_manifest

METHODS

ok_manifest [{exclude => $arref}][$msg]

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

By default, ok_manifest will look for the file MANIFEST in the current working directory (which is how tests are traditionally run). If you wish to specify a different directory, you may pass the file or dir parameters, for example:

ok_manifest({dir => '/path/to/my/dist/'});

EXCLUDING FILES

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

REPLACE THIS MODULE

You can replace the test scripts using Test::CheckManifest with this one using ExtUtils::Manifest.

use Test::More tests => 2;
use ExtUtils::Manifest;

is_deeply [ ExtUtils::Manifest::manicheck() ], [], 'missing';
is_deeply [ ExtUtils::Manifest::filecheck() ], [], 'extra';

(thanks to @mohawk2).

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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

AUTHOR

Renee Baecker <reneeb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2018 by Renee Baecker.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)