Re: A cordial invitation to participate in growing the list of Perl modules and clients created for the web services listed at FreePublicAPIs

Just uploaded Acme-Free-API-Geodata-GeoIP to pause.

I'm using mercurial as SCM here, like all my other projects. Acme-Free-API-Geodata-GeoIP on cavac.at

I don't use Dist::Zilla (and have never used it), so i didn't include a dist.ini. It's sunday and i have neither the time nor the energy to look into that just for an example project. What does Dist::Zilla even do? The website does mumble about "it helps to build and upload dists to CPAN", something i can accomplish in a few seconds with "make dist" and a manual upload (which, btw, always reminds me to clean up my old version. I find that very helpful).

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Re^2: A cordial invitation to participate in growing the list of Perl modules and clients created for the web services listed at FreePublicAPIs by hippo (Archbishop) on Sep 01, 2024 at 11:28 UTC
I don't use Dist::Zilla (and have never used it) That's perfectly fine. I don't use it either as it is vast overkill for my simple needs. I have had to work with it when contributing to the dists of others where it was already installed and that really did not encourage me to use it any further. It is used to automate away a lot of boilerplate when authoring dists and is probably really useful for those maintaining hundreds of dists. 🦛	[reply]
Re^3: A cordial invitation to participate in growing the list of Perl modules and clients created for the web services listed at FreePublicAPIs by NERDVANA (Priest) on Sep 02, 2024 at 05:29 UTC
Or for those maintaining a few dists whose dyslexia guarantees that they'll mess up the boilerplate if they have to do it by hand.	[reply]
Re^3: A cordial invitation to participate in growing the list of Perl modules and clients created for the web services listed at FreePublicAPIs by oodler (Beadle) on Sep 01, 2024 at 16:27 UTC
Yes, totally fine - I need to update the language to imply wiggle room! It's been very interesting to see how people do their stuff.	[reply]