NAME

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaData::BuiltWith - Report what versions of things your distribution was built against

VERSION

version 0.01000022

SYNOPSIS

[MetaData::BuiltWith]
include = Some::Module::Thats::Not::In::Preq
exclude = Some::Module::Youre::Ashamed::Of

DESCRIPTION

Often, distribution authors get module dependencies wrong. So in such cases, its handy to be able to see what version of various packages they built with.

Some would prefer to demand everyone install the same version as they did, but thats also not always nessecary.

Hopefully, the existance of the metadata provided by this module will help users on thier end machines make intelligent choices about what modules to install in the event of a problem.

METHODS

mvp_multivalue_args

This module can take, as parameters, any volume of 'exclude' or 'include' arguments.

metadata

This module scrapes together the name of all modules that exist in the "Prereq" section that Dist::Zilla collects, and then works out what version of things you have, applies the various include/exclude rules, and ships that data back to Dist::Zilla via this method. See Dist::Zilla::Role::MetaProvider for more details.

EXAMPLE OUTPUT ( META.json )

"x_BuiltWith" : {
   "modules" : {
      "Dist::Zilla::Role::MetaProvider" : "4.101612",
      "File::Find" : "1.15",
      "File::Temp" : "0.22",
      "Module::Build" : "0.3607",
      "Moose" : "1.07",
      "Test::More" : "0.94"
   },
   "perl" : "5.012000",
   "platform" : "MSWin32"
},

AUTHOR

Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Kent Fredric <kentnl@cpan.org>.

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