Making a distribution with a command line thingy in it

[Jan Henning Thorsen]

If you're using Module::Install, you need to add

 install_script glob('bin/*');

That will install every script found in the bin/ directory to the system's
default binary location. Not sure where this is on windows, but in linux
(ubuntu/debian/++) it's /usr/local/bin

Example Makefile.PL:

use inc::Module::Install;

#----------------------------------------------------
name q(My-Module);
all_from q(lib/My/Module.pm);

requires q(Moose) => 1.0;
test_requires q(Test::More) => 0.9;

bugtracker q(http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=My-Module);
homepage q(http://jhthorsen.github.com/my-module);
repository q(git://github.com/jhthorsen/my-module.git);

install_script q(bin/my-script);
auto_install;
WriteAll;
#----------------------------------------------------

Regards,
 batman

PS: ...and if you're not using Module::Install, you need to use it ;-)

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Benjamin Martin <
benjamin.martin at ims-evolve.com> wrote:

> Hello MK Mongers,
>
> Twas a good tech meet the other day, enjoyed the talks alot .. so cheers to
> all that spoke :)
>
> I was just wondering if anyone knew of a good source of information about
> building a distribution?... the reason I ask is because I was trying to find
> information on how to build into your package a command line script??
>
> I dont have any problems packaging the modules... especially now I have
> started using Dist::Zilla, but I can't seem to find a definative "this is
> how you include and distribute a script with your package" .. type  page??
> :)
>
> I have had a look in some dists that I know include a command line script
> 'cpanm', 'dzil', etc. they seem to achieve it in different ways.
>
> cheers,
> -Ben
>
>
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