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Repository link now appearing on CPAN

May 1, 2009
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Had me looking twice because seeing repository link on module pages on CPAN was new to me…..

repo-line

Yes it is new and I wasn’t the first to spot it: hanekomu’s Perl blog: Metadata on search.cpan.org

Hanekomu shows how to implement it in Module::Install. And Alexandr Ciornii comment points to how it can be done in Module::Build.

This is what you need to do in Module::Build (see meta_merge part):

use strict;
use warnings;
use Module::Build;

my $builder = Module::Build->new(
    module_name         => 'Builder',
    license             => 'perl',
    dist_author         => 'Barry Walsh <draegtun@cpan.org>',
    dist_version_from   => 'lib/Builder.pm',
    build_requires => {
        'Test::More' => 0,
        'Carp'       => 0,
    },
    add_to_cleanup      => [ 'Builder-*' ],
    create_makefile_pl  => 'traditional',

    meta_merge => {
      resources => {
          bugtracker => 'http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Builder',
          repository  => 'http://github.com/draegtun/builder/tree/master'
      }
    },
);

$builder->create_build_script();

Running “./Build distmeta” produces the correct META.yml

/I3az/

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6 Comments leave one →
  1. Yanick permalink
    May 2, 2009 4:02 pm

    Nice! The apparition of that line hadn’t registered in my brain till you pointed it out. 🙂

    Many moons ago I wrote a greasemonkey script to extract the information from the META.yml (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/31748). I’ll have to modify it to play nicely with the new upgrade.

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  2. draegtun permalink*
    May 11, 2009 7:04 pm

    Hi Yanick,

    Yes its nice to see a repository link given more prominence on CPAN especially in this GitHub frenzy world we currently live in 😉

    Barry

    PS. For some reason your comment got caught in the WordPress spam filter and so I’ve only just noticed it (took me a while to wade thru the spam!).

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    • Yanick permalink
      May 11, 2009 7:13 pm

      [re: caught in spam limbo] Hmm… I wonder what tripped WordPress’ alarms. Could be my userscript link, or my dyndns.org address (in theory, I don’t need dynamic assignment anymore, as my server has a static IP addie nowadays — but I’ve used babyl.dyndns.org for so long that changing would be a real pain).

      Oh well… My comment managed to emerge anyway, and I guess that’s what matters. 🙂

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      • draegtun permalink*
        May 11, 2009 7:25 pm

        Had just over 100 spam comments to go thru and yours was the only one I spotted as not being spam!

        And for anyone that I didn’t spot in the jetsam & flotsam…. opps Sorry! I’ll do my spam pruning a bit more frequently from now on 😉

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