NAME

this-dist - Return name of Perl distribution associated with the current directory

VERSION

This document describes version 0.023 of this-dist (from Perl distribution App-ThisDist), released on 2024-01-06.

SYNOPSIS

 % pwd
 /home/budi/perl-Foo-Bar

 % this-dist
 Foo-Bar

 # See how distribution is guessed
 % DEBUG=1 this-dist
 this-dist: Guessed dist=App-PPIUtils from dist.ini
 Foo-Bar

 # Will exit with code 1 and print error message to stderr when dist cannot be guessed
 % cd /
 % this-dist
 this-dist: No perl distribution name can be associated with current directory '/'

 # Don't show error message when guessing is failed (just exit with code 1)
 % this-dist -q
 % _

 # Also try to extract version
 % this-dist -V
 Foo-Bar 1.23

Some other examples:

 # Show MetaCPAN distribution page in browser (but see this-dist-on-metacpan script)
 % firefox metacpan.org/release/`this-dist`

DESCRIPTION

This script tries these methods when guessing Perl distribution name associated with current directory:

• Distribution metadata {MYMETA,META}.{json,yml}

• Makefile.PL, Makefile, Build.PL

• Name in dist.ini (Dist::Zilla configuration file), if the file is available

If it cannot find an associated Perl distribution name, it will print an error message to stderr (unless being told to be quiet via --quiet) and exit with non-zero status.

OPTIONS

--quiet, -q

--extract-version, -V

ENVIRONMENT

DEBUG

Bool. If set to true, will print debugging statement to stderr.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-ThisDist.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-ThisDist.

SEE ALSO

dir2dist

this-mod

this-dist-on-metacpan

Some scripts like pmman and pmpath (from App::PMUtils) or list-dist-contents and dist-has-deb (from App::DistUtils) already default to "current module" or "current distribution" so instead of saying:

 % dist-has-deb `this-dist`

you can just say:

 % dist-has-deb

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

 % prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 by perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>.

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

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-ThisDist

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

cpanm App::ThisDist

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::ThisDist