Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?

Newsgroups	perl.module-authors
Date	2015-10-09 08:50 +0200
Subject	Re: Is META.yml Necessary Anymore?
Message-ID	<20151009065025.GA88052@plasmasturm.org> (permalink)
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From	pagaltzis@gmx.de (Aristotle Pagaltzis)

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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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