I've just released Module::Starter 0.02, meant as a replacement for h2xs.
I think h2xs is very out of date as far as current best practices for modules. It's also very intimidating for people who just want to create a module, and have no need for all the compiler hoohah that h2xs throws at you. Module::Starter is meant to make things much eaiser.
Here's a sample run of Module::Starter's command-line program:
$ find Foo
Foo
Foo/.cvsignore
Foo/Changes
Foo/lib
Foo/lib/Foo
Foo/lib/Foo/Bar.pm
Foo/lib/Foo/Bat.pm
Foo/lib/Foo.pm
Foo/Makefile.PL
Foo/MANIFEST
Foo/t
Foo/t/00.load.t
Foo/t/pod-coverage.t
Foo/t/pod.t
$ cat Foo/Makefile.PL
use strict;
use warnings;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
WriteMakefile(
NAME => 'Foo',
AUTHOR => 'Andy Lester
Re:Looks Good
barbie on 2004-04-05T11:33:12
Personally I also like a README in there. I note that the POD on CPAN is difficult to read, perhaps it might be worth adding a cheat, something like 'Below is the example layout of the POD', with a few choice '----' to highlight the block. Or is there a way to stop that from happening ?I definitely like Tony's idea of a configuration file. Perhaps something like the one the cpan-upload script uses.
Re:Looks Good
petdance on 2004-04-05T18:53:10
(And are bugs *really* to be reported to bug-test-html-tidy@rt.cpan.org?Nope, and it highlights the danger of how I've been doing new module creation: Cut & paste from an existing good module.
It hasn't been updated in awhile and I do like the name Module::Starter better. Just wanted to bring it to your attention if you didn't know about it.
Re:ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
petdance on 2004-04-05T18:53:50
Any others that I don't know about? obra claimed "~dozen" existing similar packages, but that seems high.Re:ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
jbisbee on 2004-04-05T20:42:59
On search.cpan.org, just did a search for h2xs and skimmed the results. ExUtils::ModuleMaker seems like the only one that I could find.I take back not being recently updated, Geoff updated it in June of 2003 (during the last YAPC::NA in Boca Raton where he did a presentation on it)
Kinda like does what you want with the command line tool 'modulemaker' (reminds me of brian d foy's 'release').
Re:ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
perigrin on 2004-04-07T16:27:14
Barries has Module::Husbandry but I think it's been abandoned in the face of his paid work getting in the way.
Ron Savage has Module::MakeDist
Jonas B. Neilson has Module::Template::Setup
Those were the ones I found by doing a search of "Module" on search.cpan.org... note that I have used Barries Module::Husbandry and it has some nice command line tools for moving files into and out of packages (and I can attest it works under Windows despite the POD).
Re:ExtUtils::ModuleMaker
brian_d_foy on 2004-04-13T17:47:15
There is Mark Fowler's mmm script (which has the template support that other people asked for), and I am still working on my scriptdist script which I have been using to do the same thing.
When I was researching this for an upcoming TPJ article, I found all sorts of prior implementations, most of which are not on CPAN. As with a lot of things people hack on something to get what they want, and that is where their work stops.
