I had a very brief look at Dist::Zilla. It fails to sell itself to me (perhaps they need to hire a copywriter).
That's one of my irks about Ricardo Signes. Most of his modules are DEEPLY underdocumented and it's not always clear what practical use they have. But I'm speaking as the general public. Ricardo rolls deep on irc.perl.org in #moose with all the heavy hitters. They work around the clock as a dedicated pack of hackers in a cooperative non-elitist fashion.

When he puts out a module its because that pack of hackers COLLECTIVELY see it as a best of breed choice having surveyed everything out there.

In particular it clearly attempts to be a much more comprehensive system than Module::Starter. If they succeed this is of course a virtue, but I am just left with an aching feeling that is bound to incompatible with me somewhere.
Yes, I agree. I still use Module::Starter myself. But if you join the IRC channels and chat them up, they will be glad to discuss their aims and bring you in to submit patches, etc. And also why they started a new project instead of extending Andy's.



The mantra of every experienced web application developer is the same: thou shalt separate business logic from display. Ironically, almost all template engines allow violation of this separation principle, which is the very impetus for HTML template engine development.

-- Terence Parr, "Enforcing Strict Model View Separation in Template Engines"

In reply to Re^3: Unsatisfactory state of Module::Starter stack by metaperl
in thread Unsatisfactory state of Module::Starter stack by SilasTheMonk

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