Category Archives: dzil

One of my long-standing annoyances with Dist::Zilla was that it didn't have means for doing OS-specific prerequisites. I had put off converting some distributions to Dist::Zilla because of that, but finally got off my duff and wrote Dist::Zilla::Plugin::OSPrereqs to do what I want. It works like this in your dist.ini: That puts a conditional clause [...]

I love Dist::Zilla (dzil) because it automates so many of the busy-work tasks of releasing a new CPAN distribution. With dzil, when I release a distribution, dzil checks the last git release tag, bumps it up using Version::Next and uses that as the new version number for the release. It's beautifully lazy. I originally wrote [...]

You may already know that Dist::Zilla can create new boilerplate Perl distributions, just like Module::Starter (and other boilerplate generators). If you've ever tried this, you've seen that the built-in boilerplate is very, very minimal and you probably want to know how to customize it to fit your dzil style. I wrote up the tutorial below [...]