Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-24 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:33 AM, Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think it needs to be in 1.4, but it would be good to explicitly declare the special status of the perl key in the requires section. The synopsis of the spec indicates that you are supposed to be able to specify a

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jun 24, 2008, at 03:42, David Golden wrote: That's a great point. The Oslo Consensus (from the Oslo QA hackathon) agreed on supporting 'perl' as a special key for requires, configure_requires, etc. Having that enshrined in the META.yml spec would be a great way to ratify that sentiment.

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-24 Thread David Golden
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 11:55 AM, David E. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 24, 2008, at 03:42, David Golden wrote: That's a great point. The Oslo Consensus (from the Oslo QA hackathon) agreed on supporting 'perl' as a special key for requires, configure_requires, etc. Having that

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-24 Thread Ken Williams
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Jan Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: qI don't think it needs to be in 1.4, but it would be good to explicitly declare the special status of the perl key in the requires section. The synopsis of the spec indicates that you are supposed to be able to specify a

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-24 Thread Ken Williams
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:23 PM, David E. Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 23, 2008, at 19:59, Ken Williams wrote: Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to copy http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html to http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html . +1

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-23 Thread Ken Williams
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason not to release the current meta blead as 1.4? Any rough edges need polishing? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to copy http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html to

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-23 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Jun 23, 2008, at 19:59, Ken Williams wrote: Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to copy http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-blead.html to http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.4.html . +1 David

RE: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-23 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Ken Williams wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:15 PM, Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any reason not to release the current meta blead as 1.4? Any rough edges need polishing? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to copy

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-21 Thread Ken Williams
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:11 PM, David Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, could we get a new release of M::B out soon? configure_requires support is only in 0.2808_01 and there were other important fixes there that I'd like to see adopted more widely. OK - let's do the meta release

Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-20 Thread Michael G Schwern
chorny has patched MakeMaker to add build and configure_requires support, but realized that the 1.3 META.yml spec doesn't have configure_requires. That's only in the bleading version. I don't want to release a MakeMaker that produces blead META.ymls. Can META.yml 1.4 please be released?

Re: Release META.yml 1.4

2008-06-20 Thread David Golden
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael G Schwern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: chorny has patched MakeMaker to add build and configure_requires support, but realized that the 1.3 META.yml spec doesn't have configure_requires. That's only in the bleading version. I don't want to release a