G'day nysus,
"... I'm finally learning how to create a proper Perl module ...
Module::Starter along with Damian Conway's plugin for it.
...
Can someone please clue me in? Thanks."
The enitre process should be incredibly simple.
I don't know if you did something odd initially;
or if you're running things from the wrong directories;
or something else.
I did a complete run to show you what's needed and where all the directories and files are.
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$ mkdir starting_dir
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp
$ cd starting_dir
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir
$ cat ~/.module-starter/config
author: Ken Cotterill
email: kcott@cpan.org
builder: ExtUtils::MakeMaker Module::Build
plugins: Module::Starter::PBP
template_dir: /Users/ken/.module-starter/PBP
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir
$ module-starter --module=TestForNysus
Added to MANIFEST: Build.PL
Added to MANIFEST: Changes
Added to MANIFEST: lib/TestForNysus.pm
Added to MANIFEST: Makefile.PL
Added to MANIFEST: MANIFEST
Added to MANIFEST: README
Added to MANIFEST: t/00.load.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/perlcritic.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod-coverage.t
Added to MANIFEST: t/pod.t
Created starter directories and files
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir
$ ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 ken staff 102 Feb 13 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 ken staff 204 Feb 13 17:15 ..
drwxr-xr-x 9 ken staff 306 Feb 13 17:18 TestForNysus
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir
$ cd TestForNysus/
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus
$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 9 ken staff 306 Feb 13 17:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 ken staff 102 Feb 13 17:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 661 Feb 13 17:18 Build.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 110 Feb 13 17:18 Changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 138 Feb 13 17:18 MANIFEST
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 737 Feb 13 17:18 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 ken staff 1318 Feb 13 17:18 README
drwxr-xr-x 3 ken staff 102 Feb 13 17:18 lib
drwxr-xr-x 6 ken staff 204 Feb 13 17:18 t
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus
$ perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
WARNING: Setting ABSTRACT via file 'lib/TestForNysus.pm' failed
at /Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0t/lib/site_perl/5.24.0/
+ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 755.
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for TestForNysus
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp lib/TestForNysus.pm blib/lib/TestForNysus.pm
Manifying 1 pod document
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0t/bin/pe
+rl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Ha
+rness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00.load.t ....... 1/1 # Testing TestForNysus v0.0.1
t/00.load.t ....... ok
t/perlcritic.t .... skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
t/pod-coverage.t .. skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
t/pod.t ........... skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
All tests successful.
Files=4, Tests=1, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.01 sys + 0.47 cusr
+ 0.07 csys = 0.58 CPU)
Result: PASS
So, I hadn't edited the module first.
The WARNING is because the POD only has the skeleton code:
=head1 NAME
TestForNysus -
I added some text for the ABSTRACT:
=head1 NAME
TestForNysus - blah blah blah
I find it easier to run make realclean between changes;
so, back at the previous directory:
ken@ganymede: ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus
$ make realclean && perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
rm -f ... list of files cleaned up ...
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for TestForNysus
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
cp lib/TestForNysus.pm blib/lib/TestForNysus.pm
Manifying 1 pod document
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/Users/ken/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.24.0t/bin/pe
+rl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Ha
+rness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00.load.t ....... 1/1 # Testing TestForNysus v0.0.1
t/00.load.t ....... ok
t/perlcritic.t .... skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
t/pod-coverage.t .. skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
t/pod.t ........... skipped: Author test. To run: set $ENV{CPAN_TEST_A
+UTHOR} to a TRUE value.
All tests successful.
Files=4, Tests=1, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.02 sys + 0.45 cusr
+ 0.05 csys = 0.55 CPU)
Result: PASS
I always run the make parts in the same window.
I have "set -o vi" in my '.bash_profile", so after the first
make realclean && perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
I just need 3 keystrokes to repeat those 4 commands:
<Esc>k<Enter>
While developing a module, I'd normally have 3 windows open at these directories:
- For the make commands
- ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus/
- For editing TestForNysus.pm
- ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus/lib/
- For editing *.t files
- ~/tmp/starting_dir/TestForNysus/t/
