On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, so using Module::Starter with Module::Install would be a good choice > because Module::Starter also creates some simple test files and they may be a > big part of the tests for very simple modules. > > Do you know if there is a way to do the same thing with Dist::Zilla? > Dist::Zilla is great, but it doesn't create those simple test files. Is there > a plugin for it that can do this?
Absolutely. There are lots of plugins for various default tests. See any of the Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::NAME distributions on CPAN for examples. Mine is fairly well documented as to what it includes: http://p3rl.org/Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::DAGOLDEN Also, here's a great article explaining pieces of a dist.ini bit by bit: http://blog.urth.org/2010/06/walking-through-a-real-distini.html The Module::Starter equivalents are D::Z::Plugin::CompileTests and PodSyntaxTests and PodCoverageTests. Note that the latter two put things in the "xt/" directory so you will also want either "ExtraTests" (which copies xt/* to t/*) or "CheckExtraTests" (which just tests xt before release). I favor (and wrote) the latter. Dist::Zilla plugins are part of the learning curve, but the advantage is that they are so modular that it's easy to assemble a set that does what you like (e.g. ExtraTests vs CheckExtraTests. My advice is to browse some PluginBundles and get a sense for what it can do for you. > As a conclusion, for the moment my prefered way would be to use > Module-Starter with M::I for simple apps and Dist::Zilla with its default > EU::MM for more complex apps. Once you've gotten familiar with Dist::Zilla, you'll probably start using it for simple stuff, too. See http://github.com/dagolden/version-next for example -- it's one .pm file, one test file, a dist.ini file, a Changes file and a .gitignore file. But if you don't want the Dist::Zilla learning curve to slow down a release you really want to ship quickly, Module::Starter and M::I will work just fine. -- David
