On Friday 02 December 2011 16:48:26 Puneet Kishor wrote:
Of course, continuing to refine DPM while under "lib" is a pain in the ass because I have `sudo` every time, and, besides, I don't want to break my existing apps while I further experiment with DPM. So, I made a copy of DPM in my own home directory. To share it with the rest of the world, I also made that home directory version into a git repo, and put it on github.
So, now I have
/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.1/Dancer/Plugin/Meta.pm which is currently powering my apps ~/Projects/Dancer/Plugin/Meta.pm which is a git repo and where I continue to hack it
Firstly, I'd recommend adopting the usual layout of a CPAN module of a dir named Dancer-Plugin-Meta, containing lib/Dancer/Plugin/Meta.pm, along with a makefile, tests, etc. It's much easier to use e.g. Module::Starter to rock that up for you. Also, I'd recommend not manually editing/creating stuff under your site_perl directories - reserve that for modules actually installed via the CPAN toolchain.
I am not knowledgable about the workflow whereby I can make experimental changes to ~/Projects/Dancer/Plugin/Meta.pm and test it in the development versions of my apps, and when I am satisfied with the changes, update my site_perl version with the new version (Of course, pushing the changes to github is easy).
Any guidance on this would be appreciated.
You probably want to look at using local::lib - or simply start your app when you're developing with a -I argument to add a dir to @INC, e.g.: perl -I~/Projects/Dancer-Plugin-Meta/lib bin/app.pl Doing that will mean that your dev version of the plugin will be found first in @INC and loaded instead of the system-wide one. When you're happy with the changes in your dev version, you could install them as you would any other Perl module with e.g. "perl Makefile.PL; make install" if you have set up your module as a CPAN-ready package layout using e.g. Module::Starter as previously mentioned. Of course, you could just add a "use lib ..." statement to your app while you're working on it, but that's a little bodgier :) Hope that's of some help? -- David Precious ("bigpresh") http://www.preshweb.co.uk/ "Programming is like sex. One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life". (Michael Sinz)