Re^2: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2'

Hi!

Actually no, the contrary: I've experienced what could be a bug, and I'm trying to reproduce it: I'd like to test some patch on the code-base and also test the "use case project" over different Dancer2 branches. So I'm now trying to build up the "test bug project" using the sources: this of course to stay as much isolated when developing the patches.

I don't know, but I guess that I could I've spotted yet another bug here, because I don't see how to "trick" File::ShareDir to pickup the current dir (git checkout) share dir.Also I'm already using the -Ilib switch as per documentation :/ ...

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Re^3: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by tinita (Parson) on Feb 19, 2018 at 15:28 UTC
I'm using https://metacpan.org/release/File-Share for this. It takes care of the case when you are in a source directory. (It only works for dist_dir/dist_file, not module_dir/module_file.) Maybe Dancer2 could switch to File::Share.	[reply]
Re^4: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by markong (Pilgrim) on Feb 19, 2018 at 15:58 UTC
Whoa!It is working :)! Thank you very much! I'm quite surprised nobody has reported this yet: maybe all the devs have already a Dancer2 distro installed in their path :O ? The only thing I could still notice is that (even in templates) this function keeps returning '0.000000_000' which is probably un-related to the File::ShareDir issue though !?	[reply]
Re^5: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by tinita (Parson) on Feb 19, 2018 at 16:48 UTC
maybe all the devs have already a Dancer2 distro installed in their path :O ? I'm pretty sure that's the case ;-) The version issue is probably because the $VERSION gets written into the modules only when the dist is built. Some Dist::Zilla plugin writes `$Dancer2::VERSION = ...` into Dancer.pm. Can't see which plugin from looking at the dist.ini, though.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^6: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by markong (Pilgrim) on Feb 19, 2018 at 17:09 UTC
Re^7: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by tinita (Parson) on Feb 19, 2018 at 17:28 UTC
Re^3: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by 1nickt (Canon) on Feb 19, 2018 at 17:19 UTC
My apologies, then! I'd never experienced this flaw, so I made a new perlbrew lib and installed the dependencies after cloning the repo as documented on the page you showed, then ran the script as shown. I confirm the error and agree with your theory that the devs must have never seen it because they likely have a D2 installation in their normal Perl lib tree, or did when they last ran that script. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^4: Failed to find share dir for dist 'Dancer2' by markong (Pilgrim) on Feb 19, 2018 at 22:57 UTC
No need to apologize, thank you for you comment. I confirm the error and agree with your theory that the devs must have never seen it because they likely have a D2 installation in their normal Perl lib tree, or did when they last ran that script. Which in either case is somewhat scary (the latter for sure) :P	[reply]