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Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages

From:
Graham Barr
Date:
March 28, 2003 12:19
Subject:
Re: rfc: a generic solution for dual-life CPAN packages
Message ID:
20030328201856.A5660@pobox.com
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:54:52PM +0100, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
>   > Note that this solution isn't specific to Module::Build, it just
>   > relies on using a META.yml description file.
> 
> The META.yml file ideally will make the work, that's currently done by
> the PAUSE indexer, unnecessary.
> 
> Still that doesn't solve the problem how the developer declares
> namespaces to be skipped, but as the description can be given in
> Build.PL or Makefile.PL, it could be done in perl directly and we do
> not need another special file declaring something.

It only solves half the problem for search though, as search scans
all files for POD.

Graham.



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