Re: [Module-build-general] META.yml extraction on CPAN

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

On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 07:22  PM, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:

> Autrijus suggested to me to start extracting the META.yml files as
> we're doing for the README. So I did. The first yaml file has been
> extracted for Casey West:
>
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          366 Mar 12 21:42 
> poest-0.20030312.readme
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root          327 Mar 12 21:44 
> poest-0.20030312.meta
> -rw-rw-r--    1 root     root        14014 Mar 12 21:46 
> poest-0.20030312.tar.gz

Good idea.

>
> I realize now that META.yml should contain some protocol.version tag
> so that the reader knows which fields he can expect.

Good point - I included the "generated_by" field for this purpose, but 
an independent protocol field would probably serve the need better.

> And a spec, what
> the file contains and a revision history of the spec to know what a
> specific file contains or should contain depending on
> protocol.version. And a URL for the spec so that we can point to it.
>
> OK, a subset of all this will do.

I just wrote up http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec.html , 
see whether that fills the need.  It describes the META.yml files as 
created by Module::Build version 0.16.  It's a little informal, but I 
guess we don't need formality yet.

Probably the first revision we'd make is to add a field like 
"meta_protocol" for specifying the version of the protocol, like you 
suggested.

  -Ken