Re: 5.6.2.RC1 and META.yml

[email protected] (Autrijus Tang) Sun, 9 Nov 2003 19:06:51 +0800
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 11:01:58AM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> I notice that :
>     http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2-RC1.meta
> is in fact the ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.17 META.yml file. (That's the only
> META.yml appearing in this distribution.)
> 
> I thought that the indexer was supposed to ignore any non-toplevel META.yml ?

No.  The logic is currently to use any META.yml if there is only one in
the tree, or ignore all of them.

I can see that honoring the toplevel one exclusively may be a better
policy.  Andreas?

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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