-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Moin Randy,
On Saturday 20 November 2004 23:07, Randy W. Sims wrote: > Tels wrote: > > I already wondered many times why the license for most of my modules is > > not set/shown at search.cpan.org, even though modules like BigInt have > > simple the perl license (being part of the core etc). > > > > Seems like setting a "license: perl" line in META.yml would fix this. > > However, everytime I run "make dist", the META.yml file is overwritten > > again, with the license line missing. And it seems that MakeMaker doesn't > > have a "LICENSE =>" setting. > > > > Of course, I can set "NO_META" to true, and modify the META.yml file > > manually, but that looses the handy property that META.yml is > > autogenerated with the correct dependencies etc. (e.g. everytime I change > > Makefile.PL, I have to remember to change META.yml, which I surely will > > forget from time to time. Ugh.) > > > > So, is it possible to have MakeMaker to generate the license line > > automagically, or I am something missing? > > Current versions of MM don't have an option for setting the license. I > think I sent a patch a while back for the next release. You can find an > example of how you can override MM's rule for creating META.yml in: > <http://search.cpan.org/src/MHX/Convert-Binary-C-0.56/Makefile.PL> > > Search for 'sub MY::metafile' > > Randy. > > > PS: If you do override the generation of the meta file, it's a good idea > to follow Marcus' convention for setting 'generated_by' => > 'Your::Module::Name Makefile.PL'. Or if you create it by hand (NO_META), > then set 'generated_by' => 'Author Name, by hand'. These conventions > make it easy to see who's doing what with META.yml. I manually editied a few META files for now, but I already noted the troublesome "generated by". Thanx for the fix, I will employ it for my modules from now on (murphy dictated that I uploaded new versions for some of them a few hours ago :). Best wishes, Tels - -- Signed on Sat Nov 20 23:14:18 2004 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "Ivonna Humpalot" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQZ/CC3cLPEOTuEwVAQF/rgf7BeMSV7fK6Br7qibMT2gn9Jr8q8idWy7O 1iGPLCE08HfSXAr8lt91tukgBdlPT1EWxF5CtjJNqLhT9gCIIFSWMuD+rrn3C0rt 6226fNm0YhLpfRREeJZolYy4yVPn73HKSwubWG2xPCt0tLRZE86g7ahbZ4mMo/TC BPcuGYWzzsOPEc3gAoN9cnrz613BCOG6MX1QJaFN4b+zKHMbiRGqZjDIXaNxcSSX Qu9X+p2H8Ql5tU+9SOcAF/ah2QidWvp+lTWoNpWCyI2lYWk1oi3OI2nXlyT3YRew dfFy5W+mZy7YI3wt0pmSCMmplyhsv6BWaqtHllamJnRlOuDlRLGTAg== =BvIx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
