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

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>>>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:03:31 -0600, Ken Williams <ke...@ma...> said:

  > 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.

Excellent, thanks!

I noticed, the license field is explained by pointing with a hyperlink
to search.cpan.org. From there I still had to wade through more
clicks until I found the documentation. Can this be changed so that
the spec itself is the reference point?

For the contents of the license field we have already the "P" in the
DSLIP entry in the PAUSE database. There we currently offer:

  ? unknown
  a Artistic
  b BSD
  d distribution_allowed
  g GPL
  l LGPL
  n no_licence
  o open-source
  p Standard-Perl
  r restricted_distribution

And here are the current usage statistics:

select statp, count(*) from mods group by statp ;
+-------+----------+
| statp | count(*) |
+-------+----------+
| ?     |     1626 |
| a     |       79 |
| b     |       21 |
| d     |        9 |
| g     |       77 |
| l     |       10 |
| n     |        4 |
| o     |       33 |
| p     |      841 |
| r     |        3 |
+-------+----------+

Maybe it would be good to have the same options in META.yml.

-- 
andreas