App::Midgen

Generate or Check the 'requires' and 'test requires' for Makefile.PL

This started out as a way of generating the core for a Module::Install::DSL Makefile.PL, why DSL because it's nice and clean, so now I can generate the contents when I want, rather than as I add new use and require statments, and because adam kicked me :)

Version 0.10

Synopsis

Change to the root of the package you want to scan and run

midgen

Now with a added Getopt --help or -?

midgen -?

Usage

midgen [options]

   --help        brief help message
   --output      change format
   --core        show perl core modules
   --verbose     take a little peek as to what is going on
   --base        Don't check for base includes
   --mojo        Don't be Mojo friendly
   --debug       lots of stuff

Description

midgen function is to search your Perl Module and find Includes use and require and then present them in a format which you can easily use. Besides finding the included Modules it also finds the current version.

It try s to remove unwanted noise and duplication along the way.

• Ignores all sub modules of current Module
• Noisy Children parent A::B noisy Children A::B::C or A::B::D all with same version number.
• Twins E::F::G and E::F::H and a parent E::F and re-test for noisy children, catching triplets along the way.
• Mojolicious catch, mofphs Mojo::Base into Mojolicious

Food for thought, if we update our Modules, don't we want our users to use the current version, so should we not by default do the same with others Modules.

Options

--help or -h or -?
    Print a brief help message and exits.

--output or -o
    By default we do 'dsl' -> Module::Include::DSL

     midgen -o dsl      # Module::Include::DSL
     midgen -o mi       # Module::Include
     midgen -o build    # Build.PL
     midgen -o dzil     # Dist::Zilla
     midgen -o dist		# dist.ini

--core or -c
     * Shows modules that are in Perl core
     * some modules have a version number eg; constant, Carp
     * some have a version of 0 eg; strict, English

--verbose or -v
    Show file that are being checked

    also show contents of base|parent check

--parent or -p
    alternative --base or -b

    Turn Off - try to include the contents of base|parent modules as
    well

--mojo or -m
    Turn Off - the /Mojo/ to Mojolicious catch

--noisy_children or -n
     * Show a required modules noisy children, as we find them
     
--twins or -t
     * Show a modules that are twins as we find them, and ajust for there parient instead

--debug or -d
    equivalent of -cv and some :)