Category Archives: dzil

Perl QA hackathon wrapup

By dagolden | Published: April 3, 2012

From mid-air somewhere near Greenland... I'm on my way back from the fifth annual Perl QA Hackathon and I can't believe it's already over. I missed the last two and I'd forgotten what an awesome experience it is. tl;dr: Stuff I worked on: A new way of thinking about CPAN indexes Making CPAN.pm use a [...]

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OS-specific prerequisites with Dist::Zilla

By dagolden | Published: January 28, 2011

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 [...]

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Creating a YAML::Tiny doppelgaenger

By dagolden | Published: December 21, 2010

Recently, I needed to clone a distribution on CPAN and release it under a new name. I also need to keep it in sync with the original distribution. Rather than do any of that by hand, I decided to whip up a Dist::Zilla plugin (two, actually) to do the job for me. The background for [...]

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What tools should you use to create a CPAN distribution?

By dagolden | Published: December 6, 2010

Recently, I answered a question on the module-authors mailing list about the best tool for building a CPAN distribution. Whole generations of tools have come and gone since I first read Writing Perl Modules for CPAN and the state of the art slash best practices slash fads have changed. Since I first released a distribution [...]

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Automatic version numbering with git and Dist::Zilla

By dagolden | Published: October 10, 2010

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 [...]

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