[chef] About Opscode's cookbook repo changes

[Miquel Torres < >]

Hi all,

last month there was a post regarding changes in the opscode cookbooks repo:
http://www.opscode.com/blog/2011/05/24/update-on-the-future-of-opscodes-cookbooks/

While I can understand the reasons that made Opscode remove the
metadata.json from all cookbooks, it does pose a big problem for
non-ruby tools like LittleChef, which depended on JSON to
inter-operate.

Is there a way to generate metadata.json for all cookbooks that
doesn't need a Chef Server?
"knife cookbook metadata" doesn't classify there, unfortunately.

Cheers,
Miquel