Thank you very much for looking this up. I don't plan to require version
5.14 until 2017 or later, so I guess I'm stuck with META.yml for a while.
Thanks again,
-john
On Fri, October 9, 2015 1:50 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> * John M Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> [2015-10-06 20:25]:
>> What with META.json being generated (and presumably used) in our CPAN
>> uploads, is it necessary to include META.yml anymore? A brief search
>> didn't really tell me anything.
>>
>> If it makes a difference, the minimum version of Perl that I require
>> for my modules is currently 5.10.1.
>
> if Iâm looking at this right, Perl 5.13.10 is the earliest Perl version
> where the toolchain supports META.json out of the box.
>
> Specifically, 5.13.9 was the first perl to ship JSON::PP in core, but
> its CPAN.pm and Parse::CPAN::Meta lack META.json support. They were
> added in Parse::CPAN::Meta 1.41_01 and CPAN.pm 1.94_65, both of which
> were included in 5.13.10 (or rather, Parse::CPAN::Meta was upgraded to
> 1.44).
>
> In practice that means Perl 5.14.0 is the first Perl that can install
> dists with a JSON-only META out of the box.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>
>
