>>>>> On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 15:22:38 +0000, Sendu Bala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Does CPAN support and make use of the things you can include in v1.3 > (current) of the META spec? Only "requires" and "build_requires" > http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.3.html > Specifically, does it do anything useful when it comes across > 'recommends' syntax like: > recommends: > Data::Dumper: 0 > File::Find: 1.03 I expect that other tools deal with recommendations and that after the user has made his choices the recommendations are merged with requires and/or build_requires. > More importantly, does it do anything useful when it comes across the > alternate 'optional_features' syntax like: > optional_features: > - foo: > description: Provides the ability to blah. > requires: > Data::Dumper: 0 > File::Find: 1.03 > - bar: > description: This feature is not available on this platform. > excludes_os: MSWin32 No. > Is there some document that describes CPAN behaviour with META.yml files? The manpage talks about prerequisites. The build_requires attribute started to work as designed in 1.88_51 and is indeed not yet documented. -> Todo. -- andreas
