Re: 5.6.2.RC1 and META.yml

[email protected] (Tim Bunce) Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:55:32 +0000
Newsgroups perl.cpan.metadata
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:30:36PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> Autrijus Tang wrote:
> > 
> > No.  The logic is currently to use any META.yml if there is only one in
> > the tree, or ignore all of them.
> 
> That means that the META.yml that is included with 5.8.[12] and 5.9.0
> is ignored.

Top level is the only safe way to go. A distributions' META.yml
is (becoming) to important to play guessing games with.

A workaround could be added specifically for 5.8.[12] and 5.9.0.

Tim.