I renew my original caution—which I’ll point out proved prescient—and partial objection. Dist::Zilla is for power users who already understand the concerns; users owning many modules frequently updated, not those owning a couple rarely touched. In my view, the packages cannot be made beginner friendly because they are not for beginners. I’d loved to be proved wrong.

I skimmed the guide. …I don’t really see this as helping beginners use the packages. It’s more of an apologist tract and marketing pamphlet than a guide. It will be interesting to some but at the end of reading it, no knowledge about how to use the packages is gained, only reasons why one might.

In reply to Re: Dist::Zilla Tutorial for beginners by Your Mother
in thread Dist::Zilla Tutorial for beginners by nysus

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