Re: What META.yml syntax does CPAN support?

[email protected] (Adam Kennedy) Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:59:43 +1100
Newsgroups perl.cpan.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> If it is MakeMaker, it writes the PREREQ_PM stuff into the Makefile
> and CPAN.pm then reads it. If it is Module::Build, it determines
> "requires" and "build_requires". We have not made a final agreement
> how CPAN.pm gets the information out of Module::Build. Ken suggested
> and my current repository version does it: to read and eval
> _build/prereqs which is around after Build.PL has run.

And in the future, down the road a bit, we may end up with something 
based on DOAP, but that's a fair way down the road.

Adam K