Ron Savage wrote:
>> Then whether or not a module is pure Perl or whatever can be derived from its
>> external dependencies and also by recursively examining its dependencies.
>
> At what time :-).
At any time you like. That's the beauty of metadata, I don't have to worry
about the details of how, when and why it will be used.
> I was thinking of when I (a human) hit CPAN , I'd like to see a
> statement as to whether or not a module, and all its dependencies, are
> pure Perl, for example.
Once the metadata is available search.cpan or a CPAN shell can make use of it
as they see fit.
> So, I was expecting this metadata would be stored somewhere convenient.
In each module's META.yml.
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