I've just released Module::Starter 0.02, meant as a replacement for h2xs.

I think h2xs is very out of date as far as current best practices for modules. It's also very intimidating for people who just want to create a module, and have no need for all the compiler hoohah that h2xs throws at you. Module::Starter is meant to make things much eaiser.

Here's a sample run of Module::Starter's command-line program: 

$ module-starter --module=Foo,Foo::Bar,Foo::Bat --email=andy@petdance.
+com --author="Andy Lester"

$ find Foo
Foo
Foo/.cvsignore
Foo/Changes
Foo/lib
Foo/lib/Foo
Foo/lib/Foo/Bar.pm
Foo/lib/Foo/Bat.pm
Foo/lib/Foo.pm
Foo/Makefile.PL
Foo/MANIFEST
Foo/t
Foo/t/00.load.t
Foo/t/pod-coverage.t
Foo/t/pod.t

$ cat Foo/Makefile.PL 
use strict;
use warnings;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    NAME                => 'Foo',
    AUTHOR              => 'Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>',
    VERSION_FROM        => 'lib/Foo.pm',
    ABSTRACT_FROM       => 'lib/Foo.pm',
    PREREQ_PM => {
        'Test::More' => 0,
    },
    dist                => { COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f', SUFFIX => 'gz', }
+,
    clean               => { FILES => 'Foo-*' },
);

[download]
Comments are welcome, and expected.

xoxo,
Andy

In reply to Module::Starter, a helper for new module authors by petdance

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