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

I am playing with Zydeco and have a lot of questions those days.

Not related to Zydeco, but this is a question that came because of the tests I did with it. This is more about the usual authoring and module building tools. I usually use Minilla because it is high level and it made my life super simple for something like 3 years, but I just encountered an issue. I then read the documentation of at least:

...but didn't find an answer. I guess it would be easier to ask some fellow monks.

So there is a very abnormal situation: I have .pl files in lib/. I know this is weird and not recommended, but I am using a third party tool from a rather experienced CPAN author, so I guess this is on my side that there is a problem. My files and directory tree looks like the following: 

  $ tree ./lib/
  ./lib/
    Art
      Abstractions.pl
      Wildlife/
        Buyer.pl
        Collector.pl
      Wildlife.pm
      World.pm
    Art.pm

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The reason that there are some .pl files in this area is something imposed by Zydeco (as far as I can understand) when you want to include some classes or roles. I don't want to open a debate on this, this is how things are. My tests are passing fine when I do something like prove -l t/.

The issue starts to happen when I enter some traditional building and authoring. I first used Minilla, and then Module::Build::Tiny. Here is the output: 

  $ mbtiny test
  Creating new 'Build' script for 'Art-World' version '0.06'
  cp lib/Art.pm blib/lib/Art.pm
  cp script/art.pl blib/script/art.pl
  cp lib/Art/World.pm blib/lib/Art/World.pm
  cp lib/Art/Wildlife.pm blib/lib/Art/Wildlife.pm
  t/01-basic.t .......... ok
  t/02-entities.t ....... No such file: Art/Wildlife/Buyer.pl at /tmp/
+WcGB64xtpH/blib/lib/Art/Wildlife.pm line 5.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tmp/WcGB64xtpH/blib/lib/Art/Wi
+ldlife.pm line 5.
  Compilation failed in require at t/02-entities.t line 3.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/02-entities.t line 3.
  t/02-entities.t ....... Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xf
+f00)
  No subtests run
  
  Test Summary Report
  -------------------
  t/02-entities.t     (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 0 Failed: 0)
    Non-zero exit status: 255
    Parse errors: No plan found in TAP output
  Files=5, Tests=1,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr  0.01 sys +  0.48 cus
+r  0.04 csys =  0.56 CPU)
  Result: FAIL

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All the different modules building and authoring tools gave me the same result: .pl files in lib/ are not copied to the build area and cannot be found. I dunno what to do with this situation and despite of searching in various configuration parameters, I didn't find promising paths. I guess I am missing something, but dunno what?

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Re: Can module building tools deal with .pl files in lib/
by perlfan (Parson) on Sep 11, 2020 at 20:32 UTC
    Your build tool should be able to be told to copy certain files and where to put them, so you just need to figure out how to do that. What are you using? Dist::Zilla?

    Update - oh I see, Minilla. Looks cool, never used it. It might not do what you need based on this, 

    Minilla sets install script files as ['script/*', 'bin/*'] by default.

(Note. This option doesn't affect anything if you are using ModuleBuildTiny or ExtUtilsMakeMaker, for now. If you are using ModuleBuildTiny, you MUST put scripts in script/ directory.)

    If it's true it can't handle your use case, there might be a way to do as a pre-step. But really, I think you already recognize the fact that you should figure out the root issue - don't use .pl when it should be .pm.

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Re: Can module building tools deal with .pl files in lib/ ( Module::Build add_build_element )
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 16, 2020 at 03:10 UTC

    https://metacpan.org/pod/Module::Build::Cookbook#Adding-new-file-types-to-the-build-process

    $builder->add_build_element(q/pl/); 

    $ module-starter --module DotPlInLib --email email --author author --v
+erbose --mb
Created DotPlInLib
Created DotPlInLib\lib
Created DotPlInLib\lib\DotPlInLib.pm
Created DotPlInLib\t
Created DotPlInLib\t\pod-coverage.t
Created DotPlInLib\t\pod.t
Created DotPlInLib\t\manifest.t
Created DotPlInLib\t\00-load.t
Created DotPlInLib\xt
Created DotPlInLib\xt\boilerplate.t
Created DotPlInLib\ignore.txt
Created DotPlInLib\Build.PL
Created DotPlInLib\Changes
Created DotPlInLib\README
Added to MANIFEST: Build.PL
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: ignore.txt
Added to MANIFEST: lib/DotPlInLib.pm
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00-load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/manifest.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Added to MANIFEST: xt/boilerplate.t
Created DotPlInLib\MANIFEST
Created starter directories and files

$ cd DotPlInLib

$ md lib\DotPlInLib\

$ echo sub yo { 42 }  > lib\yo.pl

$ echo sub yo { 42 }  > lib\DotPlInLib\yo.pl

$ echo sub no { 42 }  > no.pl

$ perl -pi.orig -e "s{^(\$builder->)}{${1}add_build_element(q/pl/);;$1
+} " Build.PL

$ perl Build.PL --install_base .deleteme/
Created MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Creating new 'Build' script for 'DotPlInLib' version '0.01'

$ perl Build install
Building DotPlInLib
Installing .deleteme\lib\perl5\DotPlInLib.pm
Installing .deleteme\lib\perl5\yo.pl
Installing .deleteme\lib\perl5\DotPlInLib\yo.pl

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      This is magnificent.

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Re: Can module building tools deal with .pl files in lib/
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 11, 2020 at 21:50 UTC
    Of course they can. It even used to be default decades ago. But for zydeco/tobyink to demand/impose .pl files in lib? I doubt it. Will look into this when im not on mobile.
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      Yep, Zydeco can use .pl files in lib. I wasn't aware this caused issues for any build tools. I'll need to look into it.

      toby döt ink
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