pmtools

The file "META.yml" is missing from this distribution. META.yml is needed by people maintaining module collections (like CPAN), for people writing installation tools, or just people who want to know some stuff about a distribution before downloading it.

Add a META.yml to the distribution. Your buildtool should be able to autogenerate it.

This distribution doesn't contain either a file called 'test.pl' or a directory called 't'. This indicates that it doesn't contain even the most basic test-suite. This is really BAD!

Add tests!

The build tool (Build.PL/Makefile.PL) is executable. This is bad because you should specify which perl you want to use while installing.

Change the permissions of Build.PL/Makefile.PL to not-executable.

The META.yml file of this distribution could not be parsed by the version of CPAN::Meta::YAML.pm CPANTS is using.

If you don't have one, add a META.yml file. Else, upgrade your YAML generator so it produces valid YAML.

This distribution does not have a license defined in META.yml.

Define the license if you are using in Build.PL. If you are using MakeMaker (Makefile.PL) you should upgrade to ExtUtils::MakeMaker version 6.31.

META.yml does not conform to any recognised META.yml Spec.

Take a look at the META.yml Spec at http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html and change your META.yml accordingly.

There is more than one .pm file in the base dir, or the .pm files are not in lib/ directory.

Move your *.pm files in a directory named 'lib'. The directory structure should look like 'lib/Your/Module.pm' for a module named 'Your::Module'.

This distribution does not have a license defined in the documentation or in a file called LICENSE

Add a section called "LICENSE" to the documentation, or add a file named LICENSE to the distribution.

This distribution does not 'use strict;' in all of its modules.

Add 'use strict' to all modules.

This distribution contains either a file called 'test.pl' (the old test file) or is missing a directory called 't'. This indicates that it uses the old test mechanism or it has no test-suite.

Add tests or move tests.pl to the t/ directory!

This distribution does not include examples.

Add a directory matching the regex (bin|scripts?|ex|eg|examples?|samples?|demos?) or a file matching the regex /\/(examples?|samples?|demos?)\.p(m|od)$/i to your distribution that includes some scripts showing one or more use-cases of the distribution.

META.yml does not conform to the Current META.yml Spec (1.4).

Take a look at the META.yml Spec at http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html and change your META.yml accordingly.

This distribution does not declare the minimum perl version in META.yml.

If you are using Build.PL define the {requires}{perl} = VERSION field. If you are using MakeMaker (Makefile.PL) you should upgrade ExtUtils::MakeMaker to 6.48 and use MIN_PERL_VERSION parameter. Perl::MinimumVersion can help you determine which version of Perl your module needs.

This distribution does not 'use warnings;' in all of its modules.

Add 'use warnings' to all modules. (This will require perl > 5.6)

This distribution does not have a list of provided modules defined in META.yml.

Add all modules contained in this distribution to the META.yml field 'provides'. Module::Build does this automatically for you.

This distribution does not have a LICENSE or LICENCE file in its root directory.

This is not a critical issue. Currently mainly informative for the CPANTS authors. It might be removed later.

Does not have license information in any of its source files

Add =head1 LICENSE and the text of the license to the main module in your code.

Fits the licensing requirements of Fedora (Acceptable licenses: (perl, apache, artistic_2, gpl, lgpl, mit, mozilla)).

Replace the license or convince Fedora to accept this license as well.

It is easy to repackage this module by Debian.

Fix each one of the metrics this depends on.

It is easy to repackage this module by Fedora.

Fix each one of the metrics this depends on.

It is easy to repackage this module. See http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?cpan_packaging

Fix each one of the metrics this depends on.