15. Add development_requires Proposal:
The development_requires field should specify all prerequisites only needed during development. For example this could include templating or other preprocessing modules needed to generate the final source. (Slaven Rezic) Comments: * This would be just convenience for developers, not for the end users. But it happens to be more and more popular to either take over other people's modules, or to fork distributions directly from repositories for patching, so it would be nice to have a concise notation to specify also the developer's prereqs. * So one can just write cpan `perl -MYAML::Syck -e '$meta = LoadFile shift; for (qw(configure_requires requires development_requires ...)) { print join "", map { "$_\n" } keys %{ $meta->{$_} || {} } } ' META.yml` and has everything he needs.