Adding new modules to distribution.

hesco has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is there some easy way to add new modules to a distribution created with module-starter? I've done some work in this package, see the need for a couple of additional modules in the mix, and would love to have Module::Starter and Makefile.PL do their magic again as they did to get me started here.

Petdance: Care to add a method for this, next time out?

Perhaps if I better understood the innards, I'd understand how trivial this request is and stop bothering folks here with this. I know I'd add my .pm files to lib/ and add them to the MANIFEST, add tests for them to t/00.load.t. Is there anywhere else I need to account for them, to make this whole `make dist` thing work?

ExtUtils::MakeMaker feels like a great new toy I get to learn how to use. That and chromatic and Ian Langworth's book have made this a great Christmas! Tonight, I finished the Mock Object chapter. Maybe I was simply too tired when I tried the perldoc for Mock Objects. But this chapter certainly cleared out whatever blockages existed to my actually trying to use them. I have this email method I've been trying to figure out how to test for a while now. Let me plug Perl Testing: A Developers Notebook

-- Hugh

if( $lal && $lol ) { $life++; }

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Re: Adding new modules to distribution. by gaal (Parson) on Dec 27, 2006 at 12:34 UTC
Adding the new file and a test, then noting them in `MANIFEST` is enough, as far as `make dist` is concerned. If you use some sort of source control (and you should be!), don't forget to add the files there too.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Adding new modules to distribution. by bingos (Vicar) on Dec 27, 2006 at 13:33 UTC
There is also make manifest which should update your MANIFEST file accordingly.	[reply]