Re^4: testing/release advice [was: Stopping tests]

Follow the standard incantation yourself, and see if you can see those files were properly created

Done!
And it seems to work fine 😃

META.json/yml are missing from the working directory but presence in the .tar.gz file. Only MYMETA.json/yml are in the working directory but they appear to have the same contents...

{
   "abstract" : "Crop and resize an image to create a square image",
   "author" : [
      "Ian Boddison <bod@cpan.org>"
   ],
   "dynamic_config" : 1,
   "generated_by" : "ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 7.58, CPAN::Meta::Con
+verter version 2.150010",
   "license" : [
      "perl_5"
   ],
   "meta-spec" : {
      "url" : "http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPAN::Meta::Spec",
      "version" : 2
   },
   "name" : "Image-Square",
   "no_index" : {
      "directory" : [
         "t",
         "inc"
      ]
   },
   "prereqs" : {
      "build" : {
         "requires" : {
            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : "0"
         }
      },
      "configure" : {
         "requires" : {
            "ExtUtils::MakeMaker" : "0"
         }
      },
      "runtime" : {
         "requires" : {
            "Carp" : "1.45",
            "GD" : "2.13",
            "perl" : "5.010"
         }
      },
      "test" : {
         "requires" : {
            "Test::More" : "0"
         }
      }
   },
   "release_status" : "unstable",
   "version" : "0.01_4",
   "x_serialization_backend" : "JSON::PP version 4.06"
}
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That's from my local copy before the GitHub META_MERGE PR

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Re^5: testing/release advice [was: Stopping tests] by pryrt (Abbot) on Sep 13, 2023 at 22:01 UTC
The `MYMETA` files are created by `perl Makefile.PL` and are cleaned up by the `gmake clean` that you do at the end; they don't need to be in the distro itself (which is why `gmake dist` doesn't include them)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: testing/release advice [was: Stopping tests] by etj (Priest) on Feb 22, 2025 at 13:15 UTC
No-one else mentioned this: don't put "author" or "release" tests in `t`. An environment variable is not an adequate guard. Put them in `xt` and run them yourself before making a release (and in a job on your CI so you catch anything that breaks them immediately).	[reply] [d/l] [select]