Re: Why I hate Dist::Zilla

[educated_foo]

Holy prereqs, Batman! That's at least 177 dependencies with the latest Perl (136 non-core)! Yes, it's good not to reinvent wheels, but you also have to ask yourself why you're building an 18-wheeler when a motorcycle would do as well. Should creating and updating distributions be this complicated?

[FunkyMonk]

136 non-core

I've got my site-perl under version control, so I deleted it and installed Dist::Zilla just for the hell of it. I needed to install a couple of modules manually.

Altogether, cpanp installed 132^* modules from CPAN.

^* These:


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using perl 5.13.3 5.12.3

[chromatic]

How many dependencies if you install Test::Most, Moose, LWP, and DateTime first?

[educated_foo]

A lot -- If you look at the page I linked, you still have a bunch of stuff hanging off PPI, Log::Dispatchouli, Config::MVP::Reader, and MooseX::*, plus many other random things. It shouldn't be hard for you to come up with an exact number.

[FunkyMonk]

I have no idea. I'll try to find time tomorrow to answer your question. No criticism of Dist::Zilla was intended, my post was merely informational.

Some modules do a lot, and I think it's right that they use CPAN to do the "lotness".

[FunkyMonk]

I had to install some undeclared prereqs first:

cpanp i Module::Metadata Perl::OSType

Then,

cpanp i Test::Most Moose LWP DateTime

added another 53 modules, plus the 3 prereqs, for a total of 56. So, Dist::Zilla needs another another 76 modules.