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On Saturday 20 November 2004 23:07, Randy W. Sims wrote: > Tels wrote: > > I already wondered many times why the license for most of my modules is > > not set/shown at search.cpan.org, even though modules like BigInt have > > simple the perl license (being part of the core etc). > > > > Seems like setting a "license: perl" line in META.yml would fix this. > > However, everytime I run "make dist", the META.yml file is overwritten > > again, with the license line missing. And it seems that MakeMaker doesn't > > have a "LICENSE =>" setting. > > > > Of course, I can set "NO_META" to true, and modify the META.yml file > > manually, but that looses the handy property that META.yml is > > autogenerated with the correct dependencies etc. (e.g. everytime I change > > Makefile.PL, I have to remember to change META.yml, which I surely will > > forget from time to time. Ugh.) > > > > So, is it possible to have MakeMaker to generate the license line > > automagically, or I am something missing? > > Current versions of MM don't have an option for setting the license. I > think I sent a patch a while back for the next release. You can find an > example of how you can override MM's rule for creating META.yml in: > <http://search.cpan.org/src/MHX/Convert-Binary-C-0.56/Makefile.PL> > > Search for 'sub MY::metafile' > > Randy. > > > PS: If you do override the generation of the meta file, it's a good idea > to follow Marcus' convention for setting 'generated_by' => > 'Your::Module::Name Makefile.PL'. Or if you create it by hand (NO_META), > then set 'generated_by' => 'Author Name, by hand'. These conventions > make it easy to see who's doing what with META.yml. Thanx for the pointers. The MY::metafile routine in Convert-Binary does have a few problems, though: * if YAML is not installed, it would silenty drop the generation and fallback * the generated_by header did simple contain " Makefile.PL" * a few entries (most importantly requires) were missing I include a fixed version which I used for Set::String. best wishes, Tels sub MY::metafile { package MY; my $self = shift; if (!eval { require YAML; 1 }) { warn ("YAML not installed, cannot override metafile"); return $self->SUPER::metafile_target(@_); }; my $node = new YAML::Node {}; $node->{name} = $self->{DISTNAME}; $node->{version} = $self->{VERSION}; $node->{version_from} = $self->{VERSION_FROM}; $node->{license} = 'perl'; $node->{distribution_type} = 'module'; $node->{generated_by} = "$self->{DISTNAME} version $self->{VERSION}"; $node->{installdirs} = 'site'; $node->{requires} = $self->{PREREQ_PM}; my $dump = YAML::Dump( $node ); $dump =~ s/^(.*)$/\t\$(NOECHO) \$(ECHO) "$1" >>META.yml/gm; $dump =~ s/>>META\.yml/>META.yml/; return "metafile:\n$dump"; } - -- Signed on Fri Nov 26 19:44:48 2004 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "...no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty..." -- Diebold spokesman David Bear -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQad6o3cLPEOTuEwVAQH1OQf6Ah3LJXIrX31kLgGCrLzh0q+wf687wxAV +iVMQo5BsoOB1GoeeOO5Bi9fTtO3E8dm1YheUJyBe8UmYnD4VnHy3tM24Jv26jLK sN20TEDUwPffQclx6+TfRr+BP/CWaO5ibBe54jvq++5llgSW3oE9JNQCDP0wHCDt ZLt5J6HnKByOUty41n5OrZQDs7LrLz0LjxykE1GqvYp/GMKM9NLMuuN7gZ2UXXLV o8s2TWcW9nNp2Vwo0LESp86QvmYSP9I6uqkJrRchi5YqoAKTGBYifotWw+T4mJXI V3vVQMnTyvnHTdpOUG7nZ6CUKDUXEJk0xWGZY+IrFNctWdU0lAPahg== =9Gbd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
