Dist::Zilla follow up

[Michele Berg]

A few folks had some in-depth questions about Dist::Zilla at Bill's talk tonight; rjbs (the module author) recommends #distzilla on irc.perl.org if you'd like to ping someone with anything in particular.

Michele

[Andy Lester]

I'd love to see Dist::Zilla become a hugely useful thing. If Bill's
got slides up anywhere let me know so I can put 'em on Perlbuzz.

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[Michele Berg]

Had a funny thing happen today.  A co-worker came up to me and said, "Hey, you're into Perl.  There's this really awesome Perl tool I found that's way better than grep.  I'll send you a link!"  :)  Ack is crossing language barriers!

Michele

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[Andy Lester]

On Nov 18, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Michele Berg wrote:

> Had a funny thing happen today. A co-worker came up to me and said,
> "Hey, you're into Perl. There's this really awesome Perl tool I
> found that's way better than grep. I'll send you a link!" :) Ack
> is crossing language barriers!

I'd really like it if the language just didn't matter. Nobody says
"Hey, you're into C, there's this awesome C tool I found!"

[Bill Odom]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Andy Lester <an...@petdance.com> wrote:
>
> I'd really like it if the language just didn't matter.  Nobody says
> "Hey, you're into C, there's this awesome C tool I found!"

I understand the sentiment, but I can't complain if the awesomeness of
ack (and it *is* awesome) brings people to Perl that might otherwise
dismiss it.

Bill

[Bill Odom]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Andy Lester <an...@petdance.com> wrote:
>
> I'd love to see Dist::Zilla become a hugely useful thing.  If Bill's
> got slides up anywhere let me know so I can put 'em on Perlbuzz.

They're not hosted anywhere yet, but I can clean 'em up and post
them... uh... somewhere.

And yes, Dist::Zilla is good juju, and looks to have a bright future,
and we should all blow kisses to RJBS when next we see him.

Bill

[Matt Follett]

One of the questions was if there was a way to have Dist::Zilla autofind prereqs.  There is a plugin on CPAN that will do this for you called Dist::Zilla::Plugin::AutoPrereq:
http://search.cpan.org/~jquelin/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoPrereq-1.093190/lib/Dist/Zilla/Plugin/AutoPrereq.pm

Disclaimer 1:  I've never used this plugin, I just came across it.
Disclaimer 2:  This obviously won't work for all cases.

~Matt

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM, Michele Berg <michele...@gmail.com> wrote:

A few folks had some in-depth questions about Dist::Zilla at Bill's talk tonight; rjbs (the module author) recommends #distzilla on irc.perl.org if you'd like to ping someone with anything in particular.

Michele

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[Scott Smith]

hot

[Michele Berg]

There was some question about how to invoke the name-generating parts of Dist::Zilla; I pinged rjbs, and he says that they require the podweaver or podpurler plugin and a # ABSTRACT comment.

And seriously, you should really follow his tweets.  Between his CPAN

[Michele Berg]

argh, issues with the mac still.

Between his CPAN modules and his reviews of beer and zombie flicks, he's always got something interesting to say.

Michele