Re: [Module::Build] Ready for 0.22?

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

On Saturday, January 10, 2004, at 04:55  AM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> I'm updating the meta statistics 
> <http://www.thepierianspring.org/meta.stats>, and seeing:
>
> generated_by: Module::Build version 0.22, without YAML.pm
>
> I was wondering about future variations on the above. For example, 
> when the YAML stuff goes into CPAN::META::Specification.pm or 
> whatever, what will the above line say. Maybe:
>
> generated_by: Module::Build version 0.22, via 
> CPAN::META::Specification version 0.01

I think we ought to actually have that as a rigorous field, e.g.

  META_spec: 0.01

or

  META_spec: Foo::Company::META 0.01


I think the idea behind the "generated_by" field was something 
essentially human-readable, so people could figure out who was to blame 
if the generation went awry.

  -Ken