Re: [Module-build-general] META.yaml & META.yml

[Iain T. <tmd...@de...>]

* Greg Matheson (cid...@ma...) [29 Apr 2003 18:22]:

[...]
> I'm wondering why the only.pm module requires the file to be called
> META.yml rather than META.yaml, despite the fact Module::Build
> documentation says it is called META.yaml and the other YAML files
> that the only module creates have the .yaml extension.

It was renamed from META.yaml to META.yml to aid systems that have
trouble with more than 3 characters in a suffix.

The references to META.yaml in the documentation are errors.


cheers,
-- 
Iain.