Hi, I'm re-sending this message that I sent back in 10-April and which amounted to very little, this time to the module-build mailing list too. See this link for the original message:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6419.html ----------- http://xrl.us/bi6n9 (link to svn.berlios.de) is a functional spec for a way to tag and classify CPAN modules. Those tags and catgories should end up in the META.yml. However, inserting them by hand by editing the Build.PL will be: 1. Error-prone. 2. Not capabale of being manipulated by an external program - "Only perl can understand Perl, etc.". 3. Because of #2 won't allow the current design in the functional spec of invoking a "./Build config --gui" stage which will communicate with a web-service to give an up-to-date selection of categories. Of course, this is not limited to this issue. I've overheard a conversation on a #perl where some people said they'd like to have all the (non-code) parameters to Module::Build be speicified in a YAML format or so. So I've been thinking of having a special file or files for this (or alternatively possibly re-use the __DATA__ section of the Build.PL) in order to specify machine-manipulatable parameters to the Build process. Given enough willingness, I'm willing to volunteer the time to implement it in the current version of M::B (and possibly EU::MM and M::I). I suppose it can also be implemented as a user-land wrapper around Module::Build, but would like to get some input first. And if anyone has a preference for the location of the data file or files (or __DATA__) - voice his opinion now.[1] Regards, Shlomi Fish ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html I met a guy in the bar, talked to her and she gave me her phone number.
