On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Steffen Mueller
<nj88ud...@sneakemail.com> wrote:
>> Putting human-readable stuff in a file intended primarily for
>> machine-readability seems of minimal use to me.
>
> I'm in two minds about this. Such a free form field may be useful if you
> consider that human-readable information may be generated from the META
> files. (Take a look at search.cpan.org, for example.) I don't see a good way
> to fill in the information at build time, though, except maybe parsing it
> from the POD as with abstracts.
We could define a "standard" (and optional field) for such messages
and leave it to the user to fill it. (e.g. meta_add => { blahblah =>
"yadda yadda" } in Module::Build and the like).
I don't see this as a priority, but it's easy and would allow
CPAN/PLUS to alert users if there are non-standard dependencies.
I'm mildly supportive.
David
