On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 09:13 +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote:

> Anyway - might I suggest
> 
> use ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.31;
> 
> as that was the first version with EXTRA_META support.
> 
> Either that, or a construct like:
> 
> my @extra = $ExtUtils::MakeMaker::VERSION > 6.30
> ? qw(EXTRA_META $configure_requires)
> : ();
> 
> WriteMakefile(
> [...]
>     @extra,
> );

EU::MakeMaker issues a warning about unknown keys, but then goes on to
happily ignore them.  So I don't think this is needed, or is it?

> LICENSE and AUTHOR also set fields in META.yaml - perhaps it might be
> useful to fill them too, although you'll need the same sort of
> construct for the LICENSE field for EU::MM < 6.031.

That might be useful, yeah.  But then again, you'd have to come up with
a way to fetch at least the author information from the AUTHORS file to
avoid duplication.  And the gain doesn't seem to justify this effort.
But patches welcome. :-)

-- 
Bye,
-Torsten

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