On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jan Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been reviewing some of my older META.yml files and noticed > that some contain one or both of "installdirs" and "version_from" > entries. Neither of them are part of the META spec, either 1.3 > or blead. What is the status of these entries? They seem to be > somewhat common (I think MakeMaker generated "version_from", > and many dual-lifed core modules have "installdirs: perl"). > > Should I just drop both of them, or are there some plans to make > them official/usefull in the future?
I don't think "version_from" will be supported; I don't think it makes sense as a piece of metadata about the distribution, because it implies that the consumer needs to go and parse the version out of some file. installdirs I'm not sure about. My first reaction is that it doesn't belong there either, because it's a setting intended to be easily modifiable by the user. > See also this thread on P5P: > > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-08/msg00009.html That's a pretty old thread! =) Thanks for pointing me to it though, I hadn't seen the suggestions in it to move the META spec off sf.net and into CPAN. I think that's probably a good idea. -Ken
