On Apr 13, 2006, at 1:40 AM, demerphq wrote:

Seems like if the META.yml creation occured on the installers machine
instead of on the distributors machine the problem would go away, and
allow inifinte flexibility.

Heh, that scenario would remove the need for a META.yml completely, wouldn't it?

Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the reason for META.yml's existence: to allow people to inspect module metadata without needing to execute untrusted code.

Chris
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