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Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

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Thank you very much for looking this up. I don't plan to require version
5.14 until 2017 or later, so I guess I'm stuck with META.yml for a while.

Thanks again,
     -john

On Fri, October 9, 2015 1:50 am, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> * John M Gamble <jgamble@ripco.com> [2015-10-06 20:25]:
>> What with META.json being generated (and presumably used) in our CPAN
>> uploads, is it necessary to include META.yml anymore? A brief search
>> didn't really tell me anything.
>>
>> If it makes a difference, the minimum version of Perl that I require
>> for my modules is currently 5.10.1.
>
> if I’m looking at this right, Perl 5.13.10 is the earliest Perl version
> where the toolchain supports META.json out of the box.
>
> Specifically, 5.13.9 was the first perl to ship JSON::PP in core, but
> its CPAN.pm and Parse::CPAN::Meta lack META.json support. They were
> added in Parse::CPAN::Meta 1.41_01 and CPAN.pm 1.94_65, both of which
> were included in 5.13.10 (or rather, Parse::CPAN::Meta was upgraded to
> 1.44).
>
> In practice that means Perl 5.14.0 is the first Perl that can install
> dists with a JSON-only META out of the box.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
>
>

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Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? jgamble@ripco.com (John M Gamble) - 2015-10-06 13:21 -0500
  Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? pagaltzis@gmx.de (Aristotle Pagaltzis) - 2015-10-09 08:50 +0200
    Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? jgamble@ripco.com ("John M. Gamble") - 2015-10-10 02:22 -0500
    Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? pagaltzis@gmx.de (Aristotle Pagaltzis) - 2015-10-25 14:38 +0100
      Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? shawnhcorey@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) - 2015-10-25 10:16 -0400
        Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? david@cantrell.org.uk (David Cantrell) - 2015-10-26 16:26 +0000
  Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? dmn@debian.org (Damyan Ivanov) - 2015-10-26 06:42 +0000
    Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore? jgamble@ripco.com (John M Gamble) - 2015-10-27 10:55 -0500

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