NAME

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ModuleBuild::Custom - Allow a dist to have a custom Build.PL

VERSION

This document describes version 0.08 of Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ModuleBuild::Custom, released April 15, 2010 as part of Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM version 0.09.

SYNOPSIS

In dist.ini:

  [ModuleBuild::Custom]
  mb_version = 0.34  ; the default comes from the ModuleBuild plugin

In your Build.PL:

  use Module::Build;

  my $builder = Module::Build->new(
    module_name => 'Foo::Bar',
  ##{ $plugin->get_prereqs ##}
  );
  $builder->create_build_script;

Of course, your Build.PL should be more complex than that, or you don't need this plugin.

DESCRIPTION

This plugin is for people who need something more complex than the auto-generated Makefile.PL or Build.PL generated by the MakeMaker or ModuleBuild plugins.

It is a subclass of the ModuleBuild plugin, but it does not write a Build.PL for you. Instead, you write your own Build.PL, which may do anything Module::Build is capable of (except generate a compatibility Makefile.PL).

This plugin will process Build.PL as a template (using Text::Template), which allows you to add data from Dist::Zilla to the version you distribute (if you want). The template delimiters are ##{ and ##}, because that makes them look like comments. That makes it easier to have a Build.PL that works both before and after it is processed as a template.

The template may use the following variables:

$dist

The name of the distribution.

$meta

The hash of metadata that will be stored in META.yml.

$plugin

The ModuleBuild::Custom object that is processing the template.

$version

The distribution's version number.

$zilla

The Dist::Zilla object that is creating the distribution.

METHODS

get_meta

  $plugin->get_meta(qw(key1 key2 ...))

A template can call this method to extract the specified key(s) from distmeta and have them formatted into a comma-separated list suitable for a hash constructor or a method's parameter list.

If any key has no value (or its value is an empty hash or array ref) it will be omitted from the list. If all keys are omitted, the empty string is returned. Otherwise, the result always ends with a comma.

get_prereqs

  $plugin->get_prereqs

This is equivalent to

  $plugin->get_meta(qw(build_requires configure_requires requires
                       recommends conflicts))

In other words, it returns all the keys that describe the distribution's prerequisites.

DEPENDENCIES

ModuleBuild::Custom requires Dist::Zilla (2.100960 or later) and Text::Template. I also recommend applying Template_strict.patch to Text::Template. This will add support for the STRICT option, which will help catch errors in your templates.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

You must not use this in conjunction with the ModuleBuild plugin.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHOR

Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM AT rt.cpan.org>, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM

You can follow or contribute to Dist-Zilla-Plugins-CJM's development at http://github.com/madsen/dist-zilla-plugins-cjm.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Christopher J. Madsen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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cpanm Dist::Zilla::Role::ModuleInfo

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Dist::Zilla::Role::ModuleInfo