On Thu, January 3, 2013 9:44 am, Gabor Szabo wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Leon Timmermans <faw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Gabor Szabo <ga...@szabgab.com> wrote: >>> After getting a few comments I found out that beside the link to the >>> repository one could also include the type of >>> the repository (git/svn/etc...), but as far as I can see only >>> META.json holds that information. >>> At least in the distributions I checked only META.json had this. >>> All these distributions were generated using Dist::Zilla. >>> >>> So I wonder how can ask Module::Build to generate META.json as well, >>> and how can I tell it >>> to include the other fields of the repository as well? >> >> Since version 0.3800 Module::Build generates valid META.json, but it's >> actually upconverted meta 1.4, so it won't contain any of the new >> fields. This is a known bug. I would welcome someone adding proper >> meta 2.0 support, but it's fairly low on my own todo list to be >> honest. MakeMaker has the same issue. >> >> Leon > > Thanks. > > I checked on a distribution that is using MB and it created the > META.json for me too. ++! > > Interestingly Sam Graham posted a link to his article where he shows > how he did this > 2 years ago: > http://www.illusori.co.uk/blog/2013/01/03/setting-repository-with-module-build.html
Looking at it, it looks okay to me (although it looks like a cut-and-paste example, as the only keys he has unnecessarily quoted are the resource and repository keys). For what it's worth, here's a link to my Build.PL, which successfully adds the repository link: <https://github.com/jgamble/Math-Polynomial-Solve/blob/master/Build.PL> > > I tried the same using MB 0.4003 but got the following error: > > Error is: Invalid metadata structure. Errors: 'HASH(0xfcde50)' for > 'repository' does not have a URL scheme (resources -> repository) > [Validation: 1.4] What URL did you have? Maybe there's a legitimate error there. -john