# from David E. Wheeler
# on Monday 02 February 2009 09:23:

>> logic, MYMETA.yml will contain the *result* of conditional logic for
>> a particular system and that post-configuration output can be
>> collected and
>> used to impute conditional dependencies.
>
>Who will be generating this MYMETA.yml? How many of them will there  
>be, one for each system? That's a lot of files!

It is generated on the installing (target) machine, like the _build/ 
directory, but using the same structure as META.yml.  The idea is to 
have something standard that A) CPAN(PLUS).pm can read instead of 
parsing output and B) users can attach to reports or otherwise refer to 
for diagnostics &c.

--Eric
-- 
Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
predict the future is to invent it.
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