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

I want to learn how to build a distribution. As a first step, I tried to reproduce the example that is given in the POD of Module::Starter::Smart under the Heading Placing an existing module into a new distribution. My result is exactly as shown in the POD. However a closer look shows that my distribution contains a template instead of the contents of my module.

I hope that somebody can tell me what I did wrong. I use openSUSE 11.1 and Module::Starter::Smart version 0.0.2 (installed via CPANplus a few weeks ago).

Here is the script that I used to create my distribution: 

test ! -f ~/Sudoku/tstBaz/Foo/Baz.pm && echo 'No test module!' && exit
+ 1
cd ~/Sudoku/tstBaz
rm -R lib
rm -Rf Globbo
rm -Rf tstdistr

mkdir lib
cp -R Foo ./lib
ls -R ./lib

module-starter --distro=Globbo --module=Foo::Baz \
    --builder='Module::Build' \
    --author="Klaus Wittrock" --email=myemail@web.de
ls -R Globbo

cd Globbo
perl Build.PL
./Build test
./Build dist
cd ..

mkdir tstdistr
cd tstdistr
tar -axf ../Globbo/Foo-Baz-0.01.tar.gz
cd Foo-Baz-0.01
perl Build.PL --install_base ~/Sudoku/tstBaz/tstdistr
./Build test
./Build install
cd ..
ls -l ~/Sudoku/tstBaz/Foo/Baz.pm lib/perl5/Foo/Baz.pm

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And this is my test module:

package Foo::Baz;
use strict;
use warnings;

print "Start Baz\n";

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Re: Problem with use of Module::Starter::Smart
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 15, 2011 at 23:42 UTC

    Module::Starter::Smart doesn't appear in your "script"

    Here is mine

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    Whoops, that didn't work. It appears you probably did nothing wrong

    In short, Module::Starter::Simple doesn't work, not surprising, since it never tests its own functionality

    You can accomplish what it was supposed to accomplish by judicious use of cp command, say 

    module-starter --distro=Globbo ...
cp -R lib Globbo
cp -R t Globbo
cd Globbo

# perl Makefile.PL
# make manifest

perl Build.PL
build manifest

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      Hi Anonymous Monk,

      you wrote: It appears you probably did nothing wrong. Thank you very much for your workaround. I'm optimistic it will bring me to my goal.

      There is obviously an error either in the code or in the doku of Module::Starter::Smart. Probably I will send a bug report on this.

      Kind regards

      GUIfriend

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