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NAME

this-dist - Return name of Perl distribution associated with the current directory

VERSION

This document describes version 0.013 of this-dist (from Perl distribution App-ThisDist), released on 2021-12-02.

SYNOPSIS

% pwd
/home/budi/perl-Foo-Bar

% this-dist
Foo-Bar

# See how distribution is guessed
% DEBUG=1 this-dist
this-dist: Guessed dist=App-PPIUtils from dist.ini
Foo-Bar

# Will exit with code 1 and print error message to stderr when dist cannot be guessed
% cd /
% this-dist
this-dist: No perl distribution name can be associated with current directory '/'

# Don't show error message when guessing is failed (just exit with code 1)
% this-dist -q
% _

# Also try to extract version
% this-dist -V
Foo-Bar 1.23

Some other examples:

# Show MetaCPAN distribution page in browser (but see this-dist-on-metacpan script)
% firefox metacpan.org/release/`this-dist`

DESCRIPTION

This script tries these methods when guessing Perl distribution name associated with current directory:

  • Distribution metadata {MYMETA,META}.{json,yml}

  • Makefile.PL, Makefile, Build.PL

  • Name in dist.ini (Dist::Zilla configuration file), if the file is available

To determine if a directory "looks like the top-level directory of a Perl distribution", it checks whether one of these files/directories are present: t,

OPTIONS

--quiet, -q

--extract-version, -V

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-ThisDist.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-ThisDist.

SEE ALSO

this-mod

this-dist-on-metacpan

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTING

To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub.

Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via:

% prove -l

If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla plugin and/or Pod::Weaver::Plugin. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021, 2020 by perlancar <perlancar@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.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-ThisDist

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.