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Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ModuleBuildTiny-Fallback-0.006
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NAME

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ModuleBuildTiny::Fallback - Build a Build.PL that uses Module::Build::Tiny, falling back to Module::Build as needed

VERSION

version 0.006

SYNOPSIS

In your dist.ini:

[ModuleBuildTiny::Fallback]

DESCRIPTION

This is a Dist::Zilla plugin that provides a Build.PL in your distribution that attempts to use Module::Build::Tiny when available, falling back to Module::Build when it is missing.

This is useful when your distribution is installing on an older perl (before approximately 5.10.1) with a toolchain that has not been updated, where configure_requires metadata is not understood and respected -- or where Build.PL is being run manually without the user having read and understood the contents of META.yml or META.json.

When the Module::Build fallback code is run, an added preamble is printed:

    *** WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ***

    If you're seeing this warning, your toolchain is really, really old* and you'll almost certainly have problems installing CPAN modules from this century. But never fear, dear user, for we have the technology to fix this!

    If you're using CPAN.pm to install things, then you can upgrade it using:

    cpan CPAN

    If you're using CPANPLUS to install things, then you can upgrade it using:

    cpanp CPANPLUS

    If you're using cpanminus, you shouldn't be seeing this message in the first place, so please file an issue on github.

    This public service announcement was brought to you by the Perl Toolchain Gang, the irc.perl.org #toolchain IRC channel, and the number 42.

    ----

    * Alternatively, you are running this file manually, in which case you need to learn to first fulfill all configure requires prerequisites listed in META.yml or META.json -- or use a cpan client to install this distribution.

    You can also silence this warning for future installations by setting the PERL_MB_FALLBACK_SILENCE_WARNING environment variable, but please don't do that until you fix your toolchain as described above.

This plugin internally calls both the [ModuleBuildTiny] and [ModuleBuild] plugins to fetch their normal Build.PL file contents, combining them together into the final Build.PL for the distribution.

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

mb_version

Optional. Specifies the minimum version of Module::Build needed for proper fallback execution. Defaults to 0.28.

mbt_version

Optional. Passed to [ModuleBuildTiny] as version: the minimum version of Module::Build::Tiny to depend on (in configure_requires as well as a use assertion in Build.PL).

SUPPORT

Bugs may be submitted through the RT bug tracker (or bug-Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ModuleBuildTiny-Fallback@rt.cpan.org). I am also usually active on irc, as 'ether' at irc.perl.org.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Peter Rabbitson (ribasushi), for inspiration, and Matt Trout (mst), for not stopping me.

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Karen Etheridge.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.