META.yml autogeneration revisited

[Stas Bekman]

We just spotted another issue with META.yml autogeneration and inclusion in 
the distro. This problem will be encountered by any developers who bundle 
complete packages in their CPAN distros.

Apache-Test has a dual-life. On its own and inside modperl-2.0. We committed 
Apache-Test/MANIFEST to include META.yml. And it's cool. The problem is that 
when we release modperl-2.0, we now have a problem:

...
Configuring Apache/2.0.48 mod_perl/1.99_11 Perl/v5.8.2
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
generating script t/TEST
Checking if your kit is complete...
Warning: the following files are missing in your kit:
        META.yml
Please inform the author.
Writing Makefile for Apache::Test
top-level 'make dist' didn't create META.yml in the sub-dir Apache-Test. And 
of course 'make dist' doesn't run recursively.

So the solutions I see:

1) commit Apache-Test/META.yml

-cons: we now have to maintain it

2) ask Michael to expose the API to create META.yml so we can run it directly 
from the top-level Makefile.PL. The suggested API would be:

  create_meta($sub_dir);

no cons that I can think of, but a bit ugly ;)

3)

hmm, I said 2.

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