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Module::Release::Extras

nik on 2004-06-20T21:35:06

I've been using brian d foy / Andy Lester's rather useful Module::Release to automate releasing new modules to CPAN and uploading code drops to Sourceforge for a while now.

But as part of a general organisational cleanup, I moved my code repositories away from CVS to Subversion, and while I was doing that I chugged down the Module::Build koolade too.

Disaster. Module::Release doesn't grok Module::Build, nor does it know how to "tag" files in a Subversion repository. Module::Release is very much CVS + Makefile.PL only.

Hence Module::Release::Extras, at a CPAN mirror near you. Right now, this provides two subclasses that you can use with release(1) and an appropriate subclass line in your .releaserc. M::R::Subversion lets you use M::R with files in a Subversion repository, and M::R::ModuleBuild lets M::R work with modules that build using Module::Build.

And if you need to use both of these together, see M::R::NIKC for an example of how to do it.

Module::Release 2.0

brian_d_foy on 2004-06-21T18:59:54

I'm working on a new version of Module::Release. The big deal is extensibility, so there will be a way for people to add this sort of stuff very easily.

Thanks for the Subversion stuff. I'm about to go on a computerless vacation, but let's talk about this when i get back so we can have a Subversion thing ready to go for the new version.

As for now, you can create functions just like you see in Module::Release now and they should still be good later, so you don't have to wait for me to add things. :)