Thu Jan 07 16:28:10 2010: Request 53498 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by JDB
Queue: Win32-IPC
Subject: META.yml incompatible with latest Module::Build releases
Broken in: 1.07
Severity: Important
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: j...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=53498 >
The META.yml file specifies the prerequisite Perl version as '5.6.0', which
Module::Build no longer supports. According to the upcoming META 2.0 spec it
needs to be written either as '5.006' or as '"v5.6.0"' as a quoted string.
Ref
http://github.com/dagolden/cpan-meta-spec/blob/master/META-spec.pod#version_numbers
Sample build failure:
# running Build.PL --installdirs core
compilet-1308884992.c
Creating library C:\WINNT\TEMP\compilet.lib and object
C:\WINNT\TEMP\compilet.exp
Creating new 'MYMETA.yml' with configuration results
Creating new 'Build' script for 'Win32-IPC' version '1.07'
Prereq '5.6.0' for 'perl' is not supported by Module::Build::Compat
