On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 14:30, Matt S Trout <m...@shadowcat.co.uk> wrote: >> I'm sorry, I thought that the location of 'Home' was set based on the >> Makefile.PL. Reviewing the documentation, I see a dist.ini file can also >> serve for that purpose. > > However, one of the tenets of Dist::Zilla is that your base directory need > not look anything like the final distribution. > > In the case of Catalyst applications, the standard assumption that a checkout > and a final dist look much the same (as is normal for CPAN) is used quite > substantially; so I'd say that in this case Dist::Zilla's philosophical > decision to violate that convention makes it a suboptimal choice.
Thats more a tenet of how Ricardo Signes (the dzil author) likes to work than a core assumption of Dist::Zilla. The only modification Dist::Zilla does of my distributions is to add $VERSION variables to my packages with the PkgVersion plugin. You can skip even that and manually upgrade $VERSION like you do now. There's no reason why Catalyst distros cant work with dzil.ini that I can see. Are there hooks available for catalyst.pl so that it can generate Dist::Zilla based distros instead of using Module::Install? _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
