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Recap: On 1/23/20 3:03 PM, James E Keenan wrote: > I have been granted COMAINT status by Paul Fenwick on CPAN distribution > IPC-System-Simple. This distribution is built and maintained using > Dist::Zilla and quite a few Dist::Zilla plugins. I do not, in general, > use Dist::Zilla in any of my own CPAN distributions. It's much too > "auto-magicky" for my needs and taste, so I only use it when, say, I > have to diagnose a test failure in a "CPAN-River-3000" module. > > But in this case I have to use dzil, so I'd like to get some answers to > specific questions en route to formulating what (for me, at least) will > be best practices for maintaining this distribution going forward. > > 1. How do I add a Travis-CI configuration to a distribution maintained > with Dist::Zilla? > > The IPC-System-Simple repository did not have a .travis.yml > configuration file when I cloned the repo, so I added one (attached) > copied from one of my other CPAN distros where it DWIMs. I made no > changes in dist.ini. The only other change I made was to modify a test > to deal with the github issue that led me to request comaintenance on > this distro in the first place. I activated the configuration under my > Travis account and pushed to github. However, the Travis build failed, > here: > > ##### > https://travis-ci.org/jkeenan/ipc-system-simple/jobs/641031415 > ##### > > This build failed with this log output: > > ##### > [DZ] attempt to add META.json multiple times; added by: text from > coderef added by MetaJSON (Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaJSON line 91); > filename set by GatherDir (Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir line 225); > encoded_content added by @Basic/GatherDir > (Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir line 226) [snip] > ##### > > So, what do I need to do to get Dist::Zilla and Travis to play nice with > each other? (Attached: the Travis config I wrote and the existing > dist.ini file.) As reported earlier in this thread, removing '--auto' from the Travis configuration, as recommended by Dan Book, did the trick. > 2. For testing on Windows, how do I add an Appveyor configuration to a > distribution maintained with Dist::Zilla? > > I haven't tried an Appveyor configuration/run yet, but since I had > problems with Travis, I assume I'll also encounter problems with Appveyor. > I managed to get an Appveyor configuration, but the build stopped when it couldn't locate a prereq needed only on Windows. I decided to defer all work on Windows (which I don't have access to) until a later date. > 3. Assume that I am the co-maintainer of the distribution but have > rights to push to the original author's repository, which will remain > the canonical repository. How do I then get the CPAN release to show up > under my CPAN ID (JKEENAN)? > I decided to KISS. I called 'dzil test' and 'dzil build' then manually uploaded the resulting tarball to CPAN in the same way I've done since 2002. Thank you very much. Jim KeenanThread Previous | Thread Next