Ah, someone who actually doesn't like DZ ... I sorta thought it was the latest Perl darling, at least in the distro packaging arena. But I suppose there's always a contrary viewpoint.
I gotta be honest: I always felt DZ was overkill myself, and I never planned on really checking it out until I was juggling like a dozen CPAN modules at once (if I ever get there). But then I got handed a project to come up with a packaging system for $work, and even then I was going to stay away from DZ--I was tentatively planning on using a combination of ExtUtils::ModuleMaker and Module::Install--but the more I started looking at what I needed to do, the more I realized that, FTMP, DZ already did it, and so I ended up biting the bullet. Now I can't imagine doing without it.
Of course, as I say, I still haven't converted any of my modules over to use it ... it's not particularly conducive to just jumping in and getting started quickly (at least IME). But I do plan on doing so eventually. I think in the long run I'll be happier: less whining about having to keep version numbers sync'ed across multiple library files, less maintaining of my own cobbled together script for PAUSE uploads, less boilerplate copying, etc. And I think tobyink has the right of it in terms of potential contributors running tests: prove is the bomb. I use that over make test myself, most of the time.
And, of course, there's also the concept that, the more popular it becomes, the less you can avoid it. I never particularly liked Module::Build (e.g.), and in fact I spent a few months cursing its name in the early days, but there's no point trying to pretend it doesn't exist at this point: you have to learn to deal with it, that's all.
Maybe DZ will never reach that point though. Who can say?
In reply to Re^2: Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ (zilla--)
by Oberon
in thread Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/
by Oberon
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