using h2xs to create hierarchical modules

[blue_cowdawg]

I may be just showing signs of early alzheimer's but I thought I could accomplish something with the h2xs command and find I can't.

Maybe I just dreamed it but here is what I thought I remembered: if I run h2xs once such that:

$ h2xs -AXn Foo

it would create a directory with all the Foo module stuff in it in a CPAN compatible manner. Here's where my memory fails me. I thought that if I followed up with:

$ h2xs -AXn Foo::Bar
$ h2xs -AXn Foo::Baz
$ h2xs -AXn Foo::Bar::Blaht

that there was a way to cooerce h2xs to put all of them in the same directory tree and update stuff along the way.

Did that work once upon a time or did I dream it?

[Anonymous Monk]

no bueno :) IIRC untested  h2xs -AXn Foo::Bar -n Foo::Baz -n Foo::Bar::Blaht

OTOH :)

module-starter --author author --email email --module Foo::Bar --module Foo::Baz --module Foo::Bar::Blaht

foo-bar
|-- Changes
|-- MANIFEST
|-- Makefile.PL
|-- README
|-- ignore.txt
|-- lib
|   `-- Foo
|       |-- Bar
|       |   `-- Blaht.pm
|       |-- Bar.pm
|       `-- Baz.pm
`-- t
    |-- 00-load.t
    |-- boilerplate.t
    |-- manifest.t
    |-- pod-coverage.t
    `-- pod.t

4 directories, 13 files

[blue_cowdawg]

Tried it... Like it. I've also been using the Module::Starter::AddModule plug in to add the modules I forgot. :-)

[petdance]

You may also want to look at Dist::Zilla, the heir to Module::Starter.