The latest MakeMaker (snapshot on makemaker.org) will now generate a META.yml file as part of the distdir target, including adding it to the MANIFEST. The intent is to get module meta-data on CPAN without authors doing any work. All they have to do is upgrade MakeMaker and then 'make dist' will Do The Right Thing. A "NO_META" option to Makefile.PL is needed to supress generation of the META.yml file in case the author wants to do it their own way, or not at all. Patches welcome. The META.yml file is intented to be compatible with Module::Build's and currently looks something like this: #XXXXXXX This is a prototype!!! It will change in the future!!! XXXXX# name: ExtUtils-MakeMaker version: 6.06_03 version_from: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm installdirs: perl requires: File::Spec: 0.8 File::Basename: 0 DirHandle: 0 Pod::Man: 0 distribution_type: module generated_by: ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.06_03Thread Next