work around plugin test failures

[zostay]

I wrote a new implementation of the contributors-from-git plugin 3 years ago to work around the installation issues I found.

(Karen sent this to my fork. I'm forwarding it on to you. -- Sterling)

[chizmw]

I'm assuming this is normal and expected:

[Git::Contributors] Warning: distribution has non-ascii characters in contributor names. META.json will be unparsable on perls <= 5.8.6 when JSON::PP is lower than 2.27300

[zostay]

@karenetheridge would know. The reason to prefer her solution, as I understand it, is because the other mod you have been using breaks dzil authordeps --missing | cpanm and the author has not responded to the bug report to fix it in for at least a couple years.

[karenetheridge]

Yes, that's an expected warning given the conditions of the distribution and the state of the toolchain historically. I've never seen it actually cause a problem in the wild, as if META.* is not parsable, ExtUtils::MakeMaker just falls back to MYMETA.json (which is generated from the PREREQ_PM arguments in Makefile.PL).

[chizmw]

@karenetheridge - thanks! I didn't think it was likely to be a big problem.