Dist::Inkt - yet another distribution builder
Experimental.
Dist::Zilla didn't have the prerequisite amount of crazy for me, so I wrote this instead.
Dist::Inkt itself does virtually nothing; it creates an empty directory, generates a MANIFEST file, and then wraps it all up into a gzipped tarball. But it provides various hooks along the way for subclasses to grab hold of. So the general idea is that you write a subclass of Dist::Inkt, which consumes various Moose::Roles to do the actual work of populating the distribution with files.
As such, Dist::Inkt is not so much a distribution builder, as it is a framework for writing your own distribution builder.
Several roles of varying utility are bundled with Dist::Inkt, as is Dist::Inkt::Profile::Simple, a subclass of Dist::Inkt which consumes most of these roles.
Dist::Inkt does just one thing - building the tarball from some checkout of the repo.
Although roles could theoretically be written for other tasks, out of the box, Dist::Inkt doesn't do any of the following:
I'm writing a separate tool, Dist::Inktly::Minty for that.
Use App::Prove or App::ForkProve.
Use CPAN::Uploader.
Use Perl::Version.
Just use hg or svn or git of whatever as you normally would. None of the files generated by Dist::Inkt should probably be checked into your repo.
hg
svn
git
Please report any bugs to http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Dist-Inkt.
If you are not me, then you may well want one of these instead:
Dist::Zilla
Dist::Milla
Minilla
Various extensions for Dist::Inkt:
Dist::Inkt::DOAP
Dist::Inkt::Profile::TOBYINK
Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.
This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Toby Inkster.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To install Dist::Inkt, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Dist::Inkt
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Dist::Inkt
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.