On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:19:36PM -0400, David Golden wrote: > As for the check -- maybe we just see if Parse::CPAN::Meta can parse > the resulting file? We just need something to protect authors from > themselves if they do something custom to META.yml and to get M::B > bugs reported before a distribution winds up on CPAN.
Really that's the only test that matters - can the META.yml as written be accurately read and therefore correctly round-tripped by the baseline version of Parse::CPAN::Meta shipped and installed with the lowest version of perl that the module is interested in? Nicholas Clark