module-build-general

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

[Greg M. <cid...@ma...>]

Oops. My reverse_name setting doesn't seem to be working. Here I
go again:

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.

Trying out Module::Build on modules which ship with Makefile.PL, I
found ./Build distdir was a way to create this file, without
which ./Build versioninstall wouldn't work.

-- 
Greg Matheson
Taiwan

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

[Greg M. <la...@ms...>]

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 all
the other YAML files that the only module creates have the .yaml
extension.

Trying out Module::Build on modules which ship with Makefile.PL, I
found ./Build distdir was the way to create this file, without
which ./Build versioninstall wouldn't work.

-- 
Greg Matheson
Taiwan

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.

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

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

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 07:43  AM, Iain Truskett wrote:

> * 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.

I've patched this in CVS.  Thanks for the report.

Greg, the docs & code in Module::Build have been out of sync for a 
while - it's been created as META.yml for several releases now.  That 
name should be considered stable.

  -Ken