I wanted to package up a module as a PAR dist, but couldn't figure out how to get either Build.PL or the PAR tools to include extra files from my par/ dir, and possibly my tests, into blib/ or the PAR::Dist target.

So I cooked up this hackaround. It may be useful for people, but I'm posting this as a SoPW and not a Snippet because somehow I feel I'm doing something wrong. Certainly, this only Works For MeTM because the module I'm packaging is pure Perl and doesn't need a blib/; YMMV and if you know the Right Thing to do here, please let me know.

In any case, here it is. It just makes a PAR from everything in your MANIFEST, and names it DIST-VER.par. Usage:

./Build.PL && ./Build pardist

In your Build.PL, instead of

my $build = new Module::Builder

Put this: 

my $class = Module::Build->subclass
  (
   class => 'My::Builder',
   code => q#
    sub make_parfile {
      my ($self, $file) = @_;
      $file =~ s/(?<!\.par)$/.par/;
      print "Creating $file\n";
      require Archive::Zip;
      my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
      $zip->addFile($_) for keys %{ $self->_read_manifest('MANIFEST') 
+};
      die 'write error' unless $zip->writeToFileNamed( $file ) == Arch
+ive::Zip->AZ_OK;
    }
    sub ACTION_pardist {
      my($self) = @_;
      $self->make_parfile(join "-", $self->dist_name, $self->dist_vers
+ion);
    }
   #,
  );

my $build = $class->new

# The rest is the same.

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In reply to PAR target for Module::Build by gaal

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