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Id: 3903
Status: resolved
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Queue: Module-Build
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Requestors: chris [...] clotho.com
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Severity: Wishlist
Broken in: 0.20
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  Mon Sep 29 17:52:43 2003 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Modular distmeta action
My Module::Build subclass makes heavy use of META.yml, so I've chosen to make 'code' depend on 'distmeta'. The drawback is that META.yml is then built every time, whether a rebuild is needed or not. I would be thrilled if ACTION_distmeta were changed to be a thin wrapper that invokes a method named, perhaps, buildmeta() that checks the timestamps of the _build files to see if META.yml needs to be reconstructed. If yes (or if the 'distmeta' action is called explicitly?) then write a new META.yml. Otherwise move on. Module::Build rocks!
  Sun May 30 11:16:30 2004 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
(revisiting this very old open ticket...) I think it might be better if your Module::Build subclass didn't read the META.yml file, and instead just used the M::B API to get the information it needs. The API is more full-featured than it used to be. -Ken
  Sun May 30 11:16:31 2004 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'
  Sun May 30 15:28:04 2004 Guest - Correspondence added
[KWILLIAMS - Sun May 30 11:16:30 2004]: Show quoted text
> (revisiting this very old open ticket...) > > I think it might be better if your Module::Build subclass didn't read > the META.yml file, and > instead just used the M::B API to get the information it needs. The > API is more full-featured > than it used to be. > > -Ken
You've misunderstood my request. I want to *write* META.yml at code-time, not to read it. My (very minor) complaint was that META.yml is not dependency-checked, but is simply built every time. But, I really don't care anymore, so feel free to leave this request closed.
  Sun May 30 15:28:05 2004 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'resolved' to 'open'
  Sun May 30 18:01:58 2004 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
[guest - Sun May 30 15:28:04 2004]: Show quoted text
> You've misunderstood my request. I want to *write* META.yml at > code-time, not to read it.
I knew that, but I figured that if you were writing it then, something else must be reading it soon thereafter. Show quoted text
> My (very minor) complaint was that META.yml > is not dependency-checked, but is simply built every time.
Yeah, that could be dealt with, but at the moment there's not a very well-defined set of prerequisites for the META.yml file - the 'version' & 'author' generally come from the module_name file, but don't always, and the various entries in 'provides' come from all the different pm_files entries. It could be done, but I'm not sure I trust myself to really get it right, and it would be a royal pain for someone if we get it wrong. I think it's probably safer to just rewrite it every time, since in the usual case this is only done once, when running the 'distdir' action. -Ken
  Sun May 30 18:01:59 2004 kwilliams [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'