[rt.cpan.org #53498] META.yml incompatible with latest Module::Build releases

[email protected] ("Jan Dubois via RT")
Newsgroups perl.libwin32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thu Jan 07 16:28:10 2010: Request 53498 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by JDB
       Queue: Win32-IPC
     Subject: META.yml incompatible with latest Module::Build releases
   Broken in: 1.07
    Severity: Important
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: new
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53498 >


The META.yml file specifies the prerequisite Perl version as '5.6.0', which
Module::Build no longer supports. According to the upcoming META 2.0 spec it
needs to be written either as '5.006' or as '"v5.6.0"' as a quoted string.

Ref
http://github.com/dagolden/cpan-meta-spec/blob/master/META-spec.pod#version_numbers

Sample build failure:

# running Build.PL --installdirs core
compilet-1308884992.c
Creating library C:\WINNT\TEMP\compilet.lib and object
C:\WINNT\TEMP\compilet.exp
Creating new 'MYMETA.yml' with configuration results
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Win32-IPC' version '1.07'
Prereq '5.6.0' for 'perl' is not supported by Module::Build::Compat
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