something on cpan to autogenerate Makefile.PL from existing distro?

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

I have this distro of customized imperfect distro tools under LEOCHARRE::Dev. One of them I use a ton, it's pmmakefile, it analizes a filesystem hierarchy and interprets it as a perl distro, and spits a Makefile.PL to stdout.

It fills in deps, versions, some other stuff, like license etc. As stupid as it sounds, it saves me time.

I'm considering polishing it up and rewriting as its own module.

I'm looking on something in cpan that already does that.. Is there something I am missing? Some ExtUtils::MakeMaker::AutoMakefile?

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Re: something on cpan to autogenerate Makefile.PL from existing distro? by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Oct 02, 2009 at 20:08 UTC
It sounds too useful not to already exist ... somewhere. Thing is though, does it supplement or supplant h2xs ? A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]
Re: something on cpan to autogenerate Makefile.PL from existing distro? by Anonymous Monk on Oct 03, 2009 at 01:06 UTC
I think scriptdist is close $$ scriptdist footest.pl Quiet is 0 Home directory is RC directory is /.scriptdist The environment variable HOME has no value, so I will look in the current directory for /.scriptdist and /.scriptdistrc. Set the HOME environment variable to choose another directory. Processing footest.pl... Making directory footest.pl.d... Making directory footest.pl.d/t... RC directory is /.scriptdist cwd is ~/footest Checking for file [.cvsignore]... Adding file [.cvsignore]... Checking for file [.releaserc]... Adding file [.releaserc]... Checking for file [Changes]... Adding file [Changes]... Checking for file [MANIFEST.SKIP]... Adding file [MANIFEST.SKIP]... Checking for file [Makefile.PL]... Adding file [Makefile.PL]... Checking for file [t/compile.t]... Adding file [t/compile.t]... Checking for file [t/pod.t]... Adding file [t/pod.t]... Checking for file [t/prereq.t]... Adding file [t/prereq.t]... Checking for file [t/test_manifest]... Adding file [t/test_manifest].. +. Adding [footest.pl]... Copying script... Opening input [footest.pl] for output [footest.pl.d/footest.pl] Copied [footest.pl] with 0 replacements Creating MANIFEST... [download] Patched to use Test::XT - Best Practice for Author Tests, and combine with Module::Install::DSL (Module::Install extends not-typing lead over Module::Build), and Makefile.PL compacts into `use inc::Module::Install::DSL 0.81; all_from lib/My/Module.pm requires_from lib/My/Module.pm test_requires Test::More 0.42` [download] Fancy :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]