Build.PL loses develop.* when generating MYMETA.json

[kentfredric]

When using Dist::Zilla, its pretty common for dists to ship with develop.requires in META.json.

It seems other metadata does get copied from META.json, just seems like prereqs is ignored in META.json and replaced, thus, the absence of develop.* in Build.PL means MYMETA.json has no develop_requires

This is not a serious dilemma , but annoying, as it means you can't simply do cpanm --with-develop --installdeps . on a build tree, because cpanm extracts deps from MYMETA.json.

Sure, cpanm could be adjusted to check META.json, but it seems more applicable to fix Module::Build here.

Especially seeing how small the difference is between META.json and the respective MYMETA.json is, namely, most differences are stringification, and the only notable differences are in repository. and prereqs.develop.

--- META.json   2013-10-21 00:27:08.208963123 +1300
+++ MYMETA.json 2013-10-21 00:39:12.919970919 +1300
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
       "Kent Fredric <[email protected]>"
    ],
    "dynamic_config" : 0,
-   "generated_by" : "Dist::Zilla version 4.300039, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.132830",
+   "generated_by" : "Module::Build version 0.4007, CPAN::Meta::Converter version 2.132830",
    "license" : [
       "perl_5"
    ],
@@ -24,21 +24,6 @@
             "Module::Build" : "0.4007"
          }
       },
-      "develop" : {
-         "requires" : {
-            "Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::KENTNL" : "2.000000",
-            "Pod::Coverage::TrustPod" : "0",
-            "Test::CPAN::Changes" : "0.19",
-            "Test::CPAN::Meta" : "0",
-            "Test::Kwalitee" : "1.12",
-            "Test::Pod" : "1.41",
-            "Test::Pod::Coverage" : "1.08",
-            "version" : "0.9901"
-         },
-         "suggests" : {
-            "Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::KENTNL::Lite" : "v1.3.0"
-         }
-      },
       "runtime" : {
          "requires" : {
             "Class::Tiny" : "0",
@@ -103,9 +88,7 @@
       },
       "homepage" : "https://github.com/kentfredric/Gentoo-Dependency-AST",
       "repository" : {
-         "type" : "git",
-         "url" : "https://github.com/kentfredric/Gentoo-Dependency-AST.git",
-         "web" : "https://github.com/kentfredric/Gentoo-Dependency-AST"
+         "url" : "https://github.com/kentfredric/Gentoo-Dependency-AST.git"
       }
    },
    "version" : "0.001000",
@@ -133,11 +116,11 @@
       },
       "perl" : {
          "original" : "v5.19.3",
-         "qv" : 1,
+         "qv" : "1",
          "version" : [
-            5,
-            19,
-            3
+            "5",
+            "19",
+            "3"
          ]
       },
       "perl-config" : {
@@ -524,4 +507,3 @@
    },
    "x_authority" : "cpan:KENTNL"
 }
-

[Leont]

This sounds like yet another consequence of #18. #31 probably fixes this issue.

[Leont]

Actually, #31 fixes this but breaks other stuff (#38). Bummer.

[Leont]

I suspect the long term solution is for dzil to pass this on to Module::Build's Build.PL, but we first need a hook to pass it on to.

[kentfredric]

I figure as long as dynamic_config = 0, you could perhaps take the META.json verbatim like Module::Build::Tiny does.

[Leont]

I figure as long as dynamic_config = 0, you could perhaps take the META.json verbatim like Module::Build::Tiny does.

I suppose that could be a workable solution.