Re: Why do we keep using META.json for stuff that has nothing to do with installation

On 28 February 2016 at 00:06, Peter Rabbitson <[email protected]> wrote:
> <ribasushi> perhaps rethinking "Meta for end-user install purposes" and
> "Meta for meta" would solve most of the recent repeated breakages by "oh
> downstream doesn't like this new thingymagic"

+1

I've been frustrated by this myself, the large amounts of auxilliary
data just makes decoding the META needlessly complicated.

And its amplified by Dzil needlessly documenting both install-relevant
and not-install-relevant data in *both* META.yml and META.json ( esp:
x_Dist_Zilla )

I've even compensated by using a YAML generator filter that excludes
x_* just to reduce my dist-size.

And this seems even more relevant in a static-install future where all
install is META driven.

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Kent

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