Andreas J. Koenig wrote: > So far META.yml is language agnostic which makes me believe this new > key is a misnomer. What about a "language" tag? Maybe this should be a > compound thing like > > implementation_language: > perl: 5.00503
I don't believe META.yml is meant to be language agnostic in that sense. I believe that's simply that the *format* be able to be parsed in any language. ie. "Don't use Data::Dumper". I don't believe the intention has ever been that this could handle Ruby or Java libraries, that's waaaaaay more than we can chew. We're having enough trouble with just Perl. I don't think a special top-level key just for the perl version is a good idea. I'd advocate that we leave the "requires: perl" hack in place: it works; and its silly to replace an existing, working hack, with a not-working, slightly-less-of-a-hack. Instead we should resolve the whole external dependency problem into which "perl" fits.
