Re: [Module::Build] broken META.yml file

[Randy W. S. <ml...@th...>]

Stephen Adkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am happy to address any real issue that you've found.
> It appears you are reporting two issues.
> Please clarify if I am misunderstanding the issues you reported.
> 
> 1. The Gantry distribution does "author" wrong
> 
> I think I am doing this right.  The fact that the two authors show
> up as one string is not a YAML or Module::Build::YAML problem.
> The "author" element is extracted from the "=head1 AUTHOR"
> section of "Gantry.pm" because "module_name => 'Gantry',"
> is in Build.PL (and no "author" entry exists).

Oops, sorry. I didn't look deep enough. Your are correct.

> 2. It would be nicer if long text sections were formatted nicer
> 
> I think the requirement that Module::Build::YAML is meeting is to
> produce valid YAML which works.
> 
> Module::Build::YAML - Provides just enough YAML support so that
> Module::Build works even if YAML.pm is not installed
> 
> I wanted to stay away from the many flavors of multi-line formatting
> which are available in the full YAML spec.  However, I believe that
> Module::Build::YAML does work properly.

Yes, this does work. I didn't know if it was worth the trouble of adding 
the additional behavior. I'm very happy with what you've already 
provided though.

Thanks,
Randy.