Test::CheckManifest(3pm)

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 <https://github.com/reneeb/Test-CheckManifest/issues/20>).

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)