Re: [Yaml-core] META.yml

[Randy W. S. <RandyS@ThePierianSpring.org>]

On 12/12/2003 11:21 PM, Randy W. Sims wrote:

> On 12/12/2003 6:09 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:11:07PM +0100, Marcus Holland-Moritz wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, the license was the main reason. I disliked seeing that
>>> "License: Unknown" at search.cpan.org. The small hack worked
>>> fine for me. I wanted to throw it out when MakeMaker fully
>>> supports META.yml.
>>
>>
>>
>> Its unlikely that MakeMaker will ever fully support META.yml.  Just 
>> the most
>> important and/or easiest to implement bits.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Maybe I'll get around to providing a patch during the next
>>> couple of weeks.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> 
> Haven't really had a chance to look, but what will older MakeMakers do 
> when they see unknown arguments passed in? I think it generates a 
> warning and ignores it. If that's the case, the only work-around I can 
> think of off-hand is to define an package variable in main to define a 
> META structure that MakeMaker can look for, but that's a bit ugly.
> 

Ignore me; it's late. Actually, we can use the same technique we use 
now: check MakeMaker's VERSION before passing the arguments.