Lyle wrote:
> Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> # from Lyle
>> # on Saturday 21 March 2009 11:12:
>>
>>
>>> Although when I suggesting adding it to META.yml he said it'd be best
>>> as a comment in the MANIFEST, such as # PurePerl
Parsable comments, a true classic bad idea.
>> Why would that be "best"? A comment in the MANIFEST is unlikely to
>> ever be a good solution.
>>
>
> Thinking about it, I think he said safer. As in, adding a comment to the
> MANIFEST was safer than adding something to META.yml. So as people
> wanting to notify CPANdeps that they had a Pure Perl option would not to
> cause any problems with moduless that used META.yml.
The META.yml spec allows anyone to add their own keywords without clashing by
simply using an upper case letter. I don't see how adding a PurePerl keyword
would cause any sort of problem, it's part of the design.
> If there was a set way of having this in the META.yml it would be better :)
Both Module::Build and MakeMaker have ways to add your own keywords to META.yml.
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