Setting your repository in META.yml with Module::Build

Sam Graham — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:49:00 GMT

I've apparently had this blog sat in my out-bound queue since September 2010 and completely forgot to publish it. Meanwhile over on Perl 5 Maven, Gabor Szabo has raised the subject with his "How to convince Meta CPAN to show a link to the version control system of a distribution?" article.

Edit: turns out I'd left it unpublished for a reason, the sample code was actually broken. Just go and read Gabor's article instead - and thank him for testing my broken code! I've removed the broken code from the article below.

Whilst I was making some changes to Template::Sandbox and Template::Benchmark as part of my move to using git and GitHub, I noticed that there wasn't any documentation on how to set your source code respository for the META.yml when using Module::Build.

I thought a quick how-to would be handy.

Author/Release tests with Module::Build and Template::Benchmark

Sam Graham — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:24:00 GMT

Today I released a new beta of Template::Benchmark (v0.99_07) and one of the changes, along with the addition of 4 new template engine plugins (Tenjin, Template::Tiny, Text::Template::Simple and NTS::Template), is that it splits the author/release tests away from the install tests.

This was a royal PITA, so I thought I'd cover the how and why of what was done.

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Setting your repository in META.yml with Module::Build

Author/Release tests with Module::Build and Template::Benchmark