Bug #78184 for mod_perl: META.yml does not conform to CPAN::Meta::Spec

Tue Jul 03 15:57:26 2012 MRSCOTTY [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

Subject:

META.yml does not conform to CPAN::Meta::Spec

When using Pinto to manage CPAN packages, CPAN::Meta::Spec fails to read the version attribute from META.yml. Could you please update so it conforms?

Tue Jul 17 20:12:52 2012 PHRED [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

So version_from appears to be a valid meta.yml directive, but CPAN::Meta doesn't support it, it requires the version directive to be used. https://metacpan.org/source/DAGOLDEN/CPAN-Meta-2.120921/lib/CPAN/Meta/Validator.pm 95 'version' => { mandatory => 1, value => \&version }, Have you talked to DAGOLDEN about adding support for version_from? There are likely other modules out there which suffer from this same issue.

Tue Jul 17 20:12:53 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Oct 29 22:31:27 2012 thaljef [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Jul 17 17:12:52 2012, PHRED wrote: Show quoted text

> So version_from appears to be a valid meta.yml directive

Where do you see that? I don't see version_from anywhere in the CPAN::Meta::Spec. It might be a valid ExtUtils::MakeMaker parameter though, but that's not the same thing. Show quoted text

> Have you talked to DAGOLDEN about adding support for version_from?

I haven't talked to DAGOLDEN yet, but I'm somewhat doubtful. I believe the META is supposed to describe the distribution independently of the distribution itself. In other words, it should be meaningful without actually having the source code in hand. A version_from directive would contradict that goal. -- Jeffrey Thalhammer Imaginative Software Systems www.imaginative-software.com

Mon Oct 29 22:41:56 2012 fred [...] redhotpenguin.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #78184] META.yml does not conform to CPAN::Meta::Spec
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2012 19:41:39 -0700
To:	bug-mod_perl [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Fred Moyer <fred [...] redhotpenguin.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer via RT <bug-mod_perl@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> Queue: mod_perl > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78184 > > > On Tue Jul 17 17:12:52 2012, PHRED wrote:

>> So version_from appears to be a valid meta.yml directive

> > Where do you see that? I don't see version_from anywhere in the > CPAN::Meta::Spec. It might be a valid ExtUtils::MakeMaker parameter > though, but that's not the same thing.

I think my original research was mostly 'version_from is in the Module::Install docs'. I didn't know about CPAN::Meta::Spec Show quoted text

>> Have you talked to DAGOLDEN about adding support for version_from?

> > I haven't talked to DAGOLDEN yet, but I'm somewhat doubtful. I believe > the META is supposed to describe the distribution independently of the > distribution itself. In other words, it should be meaningful without > actually having the source code in hand. A version_from directive would > contradict that goal.

I see your point. It also seems that version_from may be on the way out: http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2008/02/msg1239.html http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module.build/2008/02/msg1231.html I'll see what I can do about moving to 'version'.

Thu Oct 30 04:33:47 2014 shay [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thanks. This is now resolved by r1469135 and r1635427.

Thu Oct 30 04:33:49 2014 shay [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'