So a pretty common problem with the META.yml autogeneration is that people seem to put it into version control. Normally I'd advise against this except *I* have it in version control for MakeMaker.
I'm using CVS, so META.yml is still read-only, but some folks use VCs that make non-checked out files read-only. RCS. Perforce. Aegis. Right now the 'metafile' target just pukes if it can't write to the file and NO_META isn't set. This causes distdir to fail and thus 'make dist'. I'd like to put something in there which just warns if the file can't be altered. Something along the lines of write the new file to META.yml.new and rename it. If the rename fails, warn. Thoughts? -- Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Quit looking, kids! It'll EAT YOUR MIND!! -- http://www.angryflower.com/fuck.gif
