[Module-build-general] Re: META.yaml in Module-Build dist

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

Hi Graham,

You're right, I'll change the name to the distribution name.  
Regarding the version, it should be settable in the Build.PL if 
it doesn't come from a module, just like in MakeMaker.  Is there 
something that needs fixing there?  Perhaps the 'module_name', 
'module_version', and 'module_version_from' parameters are 
misnamed in the new() method, since they (should) really refer 
to the distribution, not a module.  Is this what you mean?

Thanks for the suggestions.

  -Ken

On Wednesday, August 14, 2002, at 12:44 AM, Graham Barr wrote:

> Ken,
>
> I am looking forward to having a meta file in distributions so
> that search can start using it. However I was reading the fail
> in the Module-Build distribution. It contains the line
>
> name: Module::Build
>
> I would suggest that this is wrong. A distribution is not one module
> and the meta file should be about the distribution. IMO that line
> should be
>
> name: Module-Build
>
> consider distributions like libnet, libwww-perl or any other
> distribution that contains many modules.
>
> The same goes for the version. In these distribution that
> have many modules, the version of the distribution is
> not always extracted from one of the modules.
>
> Graham.