unlinker has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have recently started using Dist::Milla to mint my distributions. I now have to make a distribution that also contains a script besides the usual modules. How can Dist::Milla be used in such a situation? How can I control the location of that script when the end-user installs this module? Does Dist::Milla provide any boilerplate that will make minting distributions with scripts easier and faster?
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Re: Building a CPAN distribution having a script with Dist::Milla
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 08, 2013 at 01:40 UTC

    How can I control the location of that script when the end-user installs this module?

    What do you mean by this?

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      I want to distribute a script with my module. When someone downloads my distribution and installs with (say) cpanm, this script should get installed in a location that is listed in the user's $PATH. How can I achieve this
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        I want to distribute a script with my module. When someone downloads my distribution and installs with (say) cpanm, this script should get installed in a location that is listed in the user's $PATH. How can I achieve this

        See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc/Minilla#script_files

        script_files get installed into installsitescript 

        $ perl -V:installsitescript
installsitescript='C:\citrusperl\site\bin';

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        You should already have installsitescript in your $PATH

        So, just drop the file to get installed into a scripts or a bin directory, and after minilla is done packaging/publishing... and you try to install, it should go into installsitescript, which is the default and expected thing

        Does that answer your question?

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