On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 11:23:43PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Randy J. Ray wrote: > > > I've seen the spec for META.yml, which is itself a YAML doc. I > > wondered what the CPANTS framework does, in terms of validating? Is is > > something generic that I could adapt? Or is it a one-off that has to be > > adjusted each time changes are made to the spec itself? > > There's Test::CPAN::Meta and Test::YAML::Meta... they look like the same thing > and its not clear why there's two parallel distributions.
They are essentially the same thing, but one uses Parse::CPAN::Meta to load the YAML file and the other uses YAML (or YAML::Syck). The former was discussed as potentially a CORE module, and the latter is rather heavy weight for some. Originally I was going to drop the latter, but got asked to continue the YAML(::Syck)? version. Cheers, Barbie. -- Birmingham Perl Mongers <http://birmingham.pm.org> Memoirs Of A Roadie <http://barbie.missbarbell.co.uk>
