something on cpan to autogenerate Makefile.PL from existing distro?

[leocharre]

I have this distro of customized imperfect distro tools under LEOCHARRE::Dev. One of them I use a ton, it's pmmakefile, it analizes a filesystem hierarchy and interprets it as a perl distro, and spits a Makefile.PL to stdout.

It fills in deps, versions, some other stuff, like license etc. As stupid as it sounds, it saves me time.

I'm considering polishing it up and rewriting as its own module.

I'm looking on something in cpan that already does that.. Is there something I am missing? Some ExtUtils::MakeMaker::AutoMakefile?

[Bloodnok]

It sounds too useful not to already exist ... somewhere.

Thing is though, does it supplement or supplant h2xs ?

[Anonymous Monk]

I think scriptdist is close

$$ scriptdist footest.pl
Quiet is 0
Home directory is
RC directory is /.scriptdist
The environment variable HOME has no value, so I will look in
the current directory for /.scriptdist and /.scriptdistrc. Set
the HOME environment variable to choose another directory.
Processing footest.pl...
Making directory footest.pl.d...
Making directory footest.pl.d/t...
RC directory is /.scriptdist
cwd is ~/footest
Checking for file [.cvsignore]... Adding file [.cvsignore]...
Checking for file [.releaserc]... Adding file [.releaserc]...
Checking for file [Changes]... Adding file [Changes]...
Checking for file [MANIFEST.SKIP]... Adding file [MANIFEST.SKIP]...
Checking for file [Makefile.PL]... Adding file [Makefile.PL]...
Checking for file [t/compile.t]... Adding file [t/compile.t]...
Checking for file [t/pod.t]... Adding file [t/pod.t]...
Checking for file [t/prereq.t]... Adding file [t/prereq.t]...
Checking for file [t/test_manifest]... Adding file [t/test_manifest]..
+.
Adding [footest.pl]...
Copying script...
Opening input [footest.pl] for output [footest.pl.d/footest.pl]
Copied [footest.pl] with 0 replacements
Creating MANIFEST...

Patched to use Test::XT - Best Practice for Author Tests, and combine with Module::Install::DSL (Module::Install extends not-typing lead over Module::Build), and Makefile.PL compacts into

use inc::Module::Install::DSL 0.81;

all_from lib/My/Module.pm
requires_from lib/My/Module.pm
test_requires Test::More 0.42

Fancy :)