On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:12 PM, John M. Gamble <jgam...@ripco.com> wrote: > Are MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json not meant to be part of a perl package? I > admit to adding them to the MANIFEST without considering it. What I found > more interesting is that the MYMETA files were not included in the > package.
This is very much deliberate. MYMETA *must* be generated during the «perl Build.PL» phase. Adding them to the distribution is at best useless, and at worst actively harmful. > I'm assuming this is an out-right error -- even if the MYMETA files are > unnecessary, their presence in the MANIFEST file should at least merit a > warning, right? Maybe. I think that's a matter for ExtUtils::Manifest, not Module::Build, though. Leon