List of CPAN Meta Spec Proposals

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Formatting and Schema

• 01. Update the YAML version declaration
• 02. Formally switch to "YAML Tiny"
• 03. Deprecate YAML Tiny dialect for JSON
• 04. Formalize allowed version number formats
• 05. Schema
• 06. Data structures, not YAML

Prerequisites

• 07. Enhance granularity of prerequisites
• 08. Extensibly Group Prereqs
• 09. Clarify intent of 'recommends' and add 'suggests'
• 10. Add a free-text prerequisite field
• 11. OS/arch/platform-specific requirements
• 12. Allow Sequences (Arrays) for Prereqs
• 13. Add a post_depends set
• 14. Prerequisites should be mutually exclusive
• 15. Add development_requires
• 16. Binary Package Dependencies

Change or clarify existing fields

• 17. Better formalization of license field
• 18. Make dynamic_config mandatory
• 19. Make repository resource a hash
• 20. Make bugtracker resource a hash
• 21. Formalize optional_features
• 22. Clarify author field

Add new fields

• 23. Have a "development version" flag
• 24. Add a "release_status" field
• 25. Controlling test suite runs
• 26. Specify a DLSIP resource
• 27. Long description
• 28. Short description
• 29. Language
• 30. Trove-Like Categories
• 31. Version changes

Other proposals

• 32. Steal from other package meta specs
• 33. Install Meta files and make them queryable
• 34. Formally reserve keys for private 'in-house' use