Re^2: I am not a META.yml expert.....

Thanks. I have tested with Test::YAML::Meta and Test::YAML::Valid and it confirms that there is a problem with my META.yml. However it does not pinpoint what the problem is, nor how it got generated incorrectly. Thus I am still stuck. Also curiously the problem seems to be identified by YAML::Syck but not straight YAML.

Edit: Just to make this clear. If I run this code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::More;

use Test::YAML::Valid qw(-Syck);
yaml_file_ok('META.yml', 'META.yml is YAML');
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it indicates that the YAML is invalid. If I remove the "-Syck" it's okay. If I run it on other META.yml it's okay. I find this very puzzling as it suggests not just that there is something mysteriously wrong with my YAML, but that Syck is not that transparent.

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Re^3: I am not a META.yml expert..... by Anonymous Monk on Sep 28, 2009 at 23:19 UTC
`$ perl -MDDS -mYAML::Syck -le 'Dump( YAML::Syck::LoadFile( shift))' M +ETA.yml Syck parser (line 4, column 62): syntax error ...` [download] line 4, column 62 is the abstract `abstract: Test library that can be run in two modes: once to + generate outputs and secondly to compare against them ----------------------------------------------------------62-^` [download] Looks like a bug in ExtUtils::MakeMaker, it doesn't quote abstract properly.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: I am not a META.yml expert..... by SilasTheMonk (Chaplain) on Sep 29, 2009 at 06:56 UTC
Yes I realized that the colon is the problem last night. I got quite worried about whether this was a problem with YAML::Syck and contacted Andreas Koenig. He pointed out I should have read the email the PAUSE daemon sent which does indeed contain that error message. It's now fixed.	[reply]
Re^5: I am not a META.yml expert..... by Anonymous Monk on Sep 29, 2009 at 07:35 UTC
But MakeMaker is still broken... and there is no new report ... ;)	[reply]