# from Johan Vromans # on Friday 18 May 2007 12:46 pm: >Hoewever, it should not be a requirement. We could make it a >recommendation.
Please stop saying anything about requirements! I never mentioned requirement, enforcement, etc. >So, one of the first things we'd need is a Application::Starter module >(program?) to set up the basic structure. I'm currently using a very hacked-up Module::Starter for modules, but the config-via-subclassing scheme can be painful and has to be debugged as soon as it becomes non-trivial. It could be made to work for scripts, but I think would involve deleting some .pm files after generation. So I would like to take a step back and look comprehensively at the whole boiler-plate, test, version control, publish issue. This is what I'm calling "The Comprehensive Perl Development Kit". The current code is only a rough-in and pile of notes, but I'm working on it as part of the three-platform binary + source release mechanism of dotReader, so... http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/CPDK/trunk/ See also: ShipIt and maybe a few others. This is fairly nascent, but the idea is to somehow support user+project config files and mixins or traits rather than subclasses as a means of customization (with the utopian idea that cooperating tools and components could be built by multiple authors.) I have a dream that I'll oneday be able to hit a big button to bring CPAN releases up-to-date with my svn but I don't claim to exactly have the answer for how it works. As for the script-as-module skeleton, this is one of those works-for-me things which could fairly easily be brought into the CPDK scheme. http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/misc/trunk/code/perl/bin/new_tool >> And yes, we're currently lacking installer support for that. > >You seem to be rather fluid with Module::Build. Would it be an option >to have Application::Starter put a Module::Build derived class in the >generated structure to deal with that? Sure. Or a dependency on a plugin, or just builtin support in Module::Build. For now, I think we can just create a Build.PL that is able to get the version number and author from the script and have a pretty descent script-only distro. Of course, I'll have too look into what happens in the absence of a lib dir. But that's enough of reciting my todo list for one day. I'll have to see where the tuits fall. --Eric -- If the above message is encrypted and you have lost your pgp key, please send a self-addressed, stamped lead box to the address below. --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------
