Module::Make - The New Way To make Modules
> perl -MModule::Make=new - Foo-Bar
THIS VERSION OF THE MODULE IS NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE.
Writing Perl modules, especially modules intended for CPAN, requires a lot of work that just isn't fun. Instead of just writing Perl code, you need to write and maintain a bunch of auxilary files as well:
* Makefile.PL * Changes * README * META.yml * MANIFEST
In addition you need to write and maintain docs. And you need to keep a version number up to date etc. Much of this is automated by various tools but wounldn't it be nice if more of this stuff just happened for free?
Wouldn't it be nice if your boring code could be written for you? Wouldn't it be nice if your comments turned into your documentation? Wouldn't it be nice if
make dist really did everything you needed to do including uploading to CPAN? Wouldn't it be nice to have full control, but rarely need to lift a finger?
Module::Make takes your Perl modules to the next level. Literally.
Using Module::Make you create a <src/> directory in your module distribution, put a config.yaml file in there, along with various pre- source files. Module::Make figures out how to put everything together to make your actual distributable code.
Generate new env with:
MM is a base class to write Foo::Make. Like Kwiki::Make.
Templates can be pulled in from open svn repos.
Some config info should be kept outside of the module src. Things that point to local absolute paths for instance.
MM require GNU-make or BSD-make environments. You can still generate code that ill work on windows but you wouldn't develop there.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.