Comments on: CPAN Meta Spec version 2 released

By: What I’m working on in Perl | dagolden

What I’m working on in Perl | dagolden — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:23:09 +0000

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By: Shuck & Awe #2: Hunting for Perl | The Pythian Blog

Shuck & Awe #2: Hunting for Perl | The Pythian Blog — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:09:29 +0000

[...] are some other changes at the horizon for your modules’ META files as well. David Golden announced the release of version 2 of the CPAN META Spec. One of the biggest changes is the adoption of JSON [...]

By: dagolden

dagolden — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:59:58 +0000

CPAN::Meta will pretty-print the JSON, so once Dist::Zilla and other tools switch over to using it, you'll still be able to browse the META file the way you used, to.

By: Clinton Gormley

Clinton Gormley — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:32:23 +0000

One thing about making JSON the preferred META format, is that, in its compact form, it is quite difficult to read.

I often check the META.* file to see what dependencies the module has. It'd be nice if tools like Dist::Zilla (if it doesn't already) were to "pretty print" the META.json instead