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Moin,
On Saturday 20 November 2004 23:07, Randy W. Sims wrote:
> Tels wrote:
> > I already wondered many times why the license for most of my modules is
> > not set/shown at search.cpan.org, even though modules like BigInt have
> > simple the perl license (being part of the core etc).
> >
> > Seems like setting a "license: perl" line in META.yml would fix this.
> > However, everytime I run "make dist", the META.yml file is overwritten
> > again, with the license line missing. And it seems that MakeMaker doesn't
> > have a "LICENSE =>" setting.
> >
> > Of course, I can set "NO_META" to true, and modify the META.yml file
> > manually, but that looses the handy property that META.yml is
> > autogenerated with the correct dependencies etc. (e.g. everytime I change
> > Makefile.PL, I have to remember to change META.yml, which I surely will
> > forget from time to time. Ugh.)
> >
> > So, is it possible to have MakeMaker to generate the license line
> > automagically, or I am something missing?
>
> Current versions of MM don't have an option for setting the license. I
> think I sent a patch a while back for the next release. You can find an
> example of how you can override MM's rule for creating META.yml in:
> <http://search.cpan.org/src/MHX/Convert-Binary-C-0.56/Makefile.PL>
>
> Search for 'sub MY::metafile'
>
> Randy.
>
>
> PS: If you do override the generation of the meta file, it's a good idea
> to follow Marcus' convention for setting 'generated_by' =>
> 'Your::Module::Name Makefile.PL'. Or if you create it by hand (NO_META),
> then set 'generated_by' => 'Author Name, by hand'. These conventions
> make it easy to see who's doing what with META.yml.
Thanx for the pointers. The MY::metafile routine in Convert-Binary does have a
few problems, though:
* if YAML is not installed, it would silenty drop the generation and fallback
* the generated_by header did simple contain " Makefile.PL"
* a few entries (most importantly requires) were missing
I include a fixed version which I used for Set::String.
best wishes,
Tels
sub MY::metafile {
package MY;
my $self = shift;
if (!eval { require YAML; 1 })
{
warn ("YAML not installed, cannot override metafile"); return
$self->SUPER::metafile_target(@_);
};
my $node = new YAML::Node {};
$node->{name} = $self->{DISTNAME};
$node->{version} = $self->{VERSION};
$node->{version_from} = $self->{VERSION_FROM};
$node->{license} = 'perl';
$node->{distribution_type} = 'module';
$node->{generated_by} = "$self->{DISTNAME} version
$self->{VERSION}";
$node->{installdirs} = 'site';
$node->{requires} = $self->{PREREQ_PM};
my $dump = YAML::Dump( $node );
$dump =~ s/^(.*)$/\t\$(NOECHO) \$(ECHO) "$1" >>META.yml/gm;
$dump =~ s/>>META\.yml/>META.yml/;
return "metafile:\n$dump";
}
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