NAME

       Module::Manifest::Skip - MANIFEST.SKIP Manangement for Modules

SYNOPSIS

       From the command line:

           > perl -MModule::Manifest::Skip=create

       From Perl:

           use Module::Manifest::Skip;
           use IO::All;

           my $mms = Module::Manifest::Skip->new;
           # optional add and removes:
           $mms->add('^foo-bar$');
           $mms->remove('^foo$');
           $mms->remove(qr/\Q\bfoo\b/);
           io('MANIFEST.SKIP')->print($mms->text);

DESCRIPTION

       NOTE: This module is mostly intended for module packaging frameworks to share a common,
       up-to-date "MANIFEST.SKIP" base. For example, Module::Install::ManifestSkip, uses this
       module to get the actual SKIP content. However this module may be useful for any module
       author.

       CPAN module authors use a "MANIFEST.SKIP" file to exclude certain well known files from
       getting put into a generated "MANIFEST" file, which would cause them to go into the final
       distribution package.

       The packaging tools try to automatically skip things for you, but if you add one of your
       own entries, you have to add all the common ones yourself.  This module attempts to make
       all of this boring process as simple and reliable as possible.

       Module::Manifest::Skip can create or update a MANIFEST.SKIP file for you. You can add your
       own entries, and it will leave them alone. You can even tell it to not skip certain
       entries that it normally skips, although this is rarely needed.

USAGE

       Usually this module is called by other packaging modules. If you want this to be used by
       Module::Install, then you would put this:

           manifest_skip 'clean';

       in your "Makefile.PL", and everything would be taken care of for you.

       If you want to simply create a "MANIFEST.SKIP" file from the command line, this handy
       syntax exists:

           > perl -MModule::Manifest::Skip=create

BEHAVIOR

       This module ships with a share file called "share/MANIFEST.SKIP". This is the basis for
       all new MANIFEST.SKIP files. This module will look for an already existing "MANIFEST.SKIP"
       file and take all the text before the first blank line, and prepend it to the start of a
       new SKIP file. This allows you to put your own personal section at the top, that will not
       be overwritten later.

       It will then look for lines beginning with a dash followed by a space.  Like this:

             - \bfoo\b
             - ^bar/
             - ^baz$

       It will comment out each of these lines and any other lines that match the text (after the
       '- '). This allows you to override the default SKIPs.

AUTHOR

       Ingy doet Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2011-2014. Ingy doet Net.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>