META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch]

On Friday, April 25, 2003, at 03:33  PM, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> While the patch looks good, I'm wondering about this:
>
> --- ext/Encode/MANIFEST Mon Mar 10 03:23:23 2003
> +++ ext/Encode-1.93/MANIFEST    Fri Apr 25 15:14:47 2003
>
> So you are diffing ext/Encode against ext/Encode-1.93...?

I too wondered why and checked.

> diff -ruN ext/Encode/MANIFEST ext/Encode-1.93/MANIFEST
> --- ext/Encode/MANIFEST Mon Mar 10 03:23:23 2003
> +++ ext/Encode-1.93/MANIFEST    Fri Apr 25 15:14:47 2003
> @@ -189,3 +189,4 @@
>  ucm/shiftjis.ucm       Unicode Character Map
>  ucm/symbol.ucm Unicode Character Map
>  ucm/viscii.ucm Unicode Character Map
> +META.yml                                Module meta-data in YAML

What the heck is META.yml?  let's see...

cat META.yml
> #XXXXXXX This is a prototype!!!  It will change in the future!!! XXXXX#
> name:         Encode
> version:      1.93
> version_from: Encode.pm
> installdirs:  perl
> requires:
>
> distribution_type: module
> generated_by: ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.10_03

Okay, looks like MakeMaker autogenerates this and appended onto 
MANIFEST when I did "bleedperl Makefile.PL". Schwern, should this stay 
in MANIFEST or is this a prereq for MakeMaker 6.10_03?

Dan the Encode Maintainer

• META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Dan Kogai
• Re: META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Michael G Schwern
• Re: META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Dan Kogai
• Re: META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Michael G Schwern
• Re: META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: META.yml [Was: Re: [PATCH Encode 1.93] pre-1.94 patch] by Dan Kogai