Hi David On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 10:06 -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Sep 6, 2009, at 7:03 AM, David Golden wrote: > > > I think the CPAN Meta Spec > > should be explicit on how how release status is determined (e.g. > > whether "_" in the version number string or parsed off a comment on > > the "$VERSION =" line) and how it is communicated (e.g. tarball name > > or field in the Meta file). > > Yes. I'd like to see a META line for the release status, and the _ > killed off in version numbers (it's one reason why I have *never* > released a dev release of a module on CPAN, I hate the _).
I'm the same. I think OP needs to start treating the *.pm files /and their meta docs/ as a single, coordinated, set of items. So, instead of putting '_' or 'TRIAL' junk in the version info, recognize that it's saying something about the *.pm file set, and put it in the meta docs. Hence my Module::Metadata::Changes, which attempts to make the Changes (aka *) file confusion into machine-readable confusion. -- Ron Savage r...@savage.net.au http://savage.net.au/index.html
