Should MYMETA.* Be in My Module Distro?

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Re: Should MYMETA.* Be in My Module Distro? by davido (Cardinal) on Jul 04, 2012 at 04:42 UTC
No. But META.* should. There are some details to be found in the POD for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, but probably your best source of information is to find a few modules that use the same maker (Module::Build, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Install), and browse the distributions. Their inclusion is not mandatory, but they're helpful. The META files help in CPAN indexing, and I think they're useful to cpanminus, and possibly others. But MYMETA.* are not intended to be distributed, only the META.* files. Dave	[reply]

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Re: Should MYMETA.* Be in My Module Distro?
by davido (Cardinal) on Jul 04, 2012 at 04:42 UTC

No. But META.* should.

There are some details to be found in the POD for ExtUtils::MakeMaker, but probably your best source of information is to find a few modules that use the same maker (Module::Build, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Install), and browse the distributions.

Their inclusion is not mandatory, but they're helpful. The META files help in CPAN indexing, and I think they're useful to cpanminus, and possibly others. But MYMETA.* are not intended to be distributed, only the META.* files.

Dave

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