Michael, any idea why the default behavior is to always overwrite META.yml? As more projects will start maintaining it, they all will have to specify NO_META. Shouldn't it be the opposite: overwrite only if explicitly told to?

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On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 14:03, Stas Bekman wrote:
Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
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Do docs say anything about it? If not a bugreport to the makemaker list? It shouldn't overwrite an existing META.yml, that's for sure.

The docs seem to document it as a feature:

       make distdir
           Copies all the files that are in the MANIFEST file to a newly cre-
           ated directory with the name "$(DISTNAME)-$(VERSION)". If that
           directory exists, it will be removed first.

           Additionally, it will create a META.yml module meta-data file and
           add this to your MANFIEST.  You can shut this behavior off with the
           NO_META flag.

I do agree with you, though, that it shouldn't overwrite an existing
META.yml. Lemme go find out if I ahve the latest EU::MM

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