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.

It sounds more like you are doing it wrong, to me. I see no point in putting the same version number into multiple library files. You don't have to use your own upload script. You can just use CPAN::Uploader which is easy to just jump right into.

I have quite a few modules on CPAN and more not there yet and I don't have anything that I consider "boiler plate". I do sometimes copy an old module when making a new module but that's one short command and just done to get the structure and then to replace 99% of it. And trying to abstract out the common skeleton would be a waste of time because it keeps evolving and there are always parts that fit some modules and not others.

So you haven't hit on a reason why I would benefit from using Dist::Zilla. But it'd have to be a pretty powerful benefit for me to invest the time to get half of CPAN installed and risk having such a huge amount of complexity behind something such that I might have to dive into that much stuff to try to diagnose when something goes wrong.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ (no zilla++) by tye
in thread Convincing Module::Install to put stuff in inc/ by Oberon

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