I've pushed commits to the Perl Toolchain Gang repo on github that add support for creating META.json and MYMETA.json files. In addition, all META file creation now goes through CPAN::Meta to ensure valid, standardized metafiles.
CPAN::Meta is an optional dependency, so tests that would need it just skip if not available. As with my work on Module::Build, the version 2 CPAN Meta files are just upconversions of version 1.4 data. This gets the ball rolling with META.json files, without requiring potentially substantial API revisions that I think are just too risky a couple weeks before the Perl 5.14 freeze. Michael -- I think it would be great if we could get a dev version released this week so we can see how it smokes and then merge it into blead if it looks decent. In the meantime, encourage people to try it out from the repository. -- David
