in reply to Re^3: Exclude files and directories in tarfile for CPAN upload
in thread Exclude files and directories in tarfile for CPAN upload

What you shouldn't do, on the other hand, is to upload a README.pod file. It gets installed into a wrong path by cpan, see for example here.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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