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Re: where is the most up to date META spec?

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From:
Graham Barr
Date:
October 23, 2003 03:32
Subject:
Re: where is the most up to date META spec?
Message ID:
C0FAA163-0543-11D8-8802-0003938857CC@pobox.com

On 23 Oct 2003, at 0:56, Autrijus Tang wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
>> On 22 Oct 2003, at 22:29, Philippe M. Chiasson wrote:
>>> One thing I noticed is that the latest version of Module::Install's
>>> META.yml has this bit:
>>
>> search.cpan.org currently supports private. But it was at the recent
>> CPAN meeting that a decision to rename it to no_index was taken. I
>> guess Ken is just covering both for now.
>
> Module::Install is, actually, my fault. :-)

I knew that :)

>>> So, is it 'no_index' or 'private' that's supported by PAUSE and
>>> search.cpan.org ?
>
> I don't know about search.cpan.org, but I've just committed a change to
> PAUSE to support them both. (rev457 -- although Andreas will need to
> review it for production first.)
>
> I guess "private" will be deprecated and eventually ignored, since it's
> not going to affect old, already-indexed distributions.

search has just been changed to use no_index if it exists or private if 
it does not.

Graham.


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