NAME

       Dist::Inkt - yet another distribution builder

STATUS

       Experimental.

DESCRIPTION

       Dist::Zilla didn't have the prerequisite amount of crazy for me, so I wrote this instead.

       Dist::Inkt itself does virtually nothing; it creates an empty directory, generates a
       MANIFEST file, and then wraps it all up into a gzipped tarball. But it provides various
       hooks along the way for subclasses to grab hold of. So the general idea is that you write
       a subclass of Dist::Inkt, which consumes various Moose::Roles to do the actual work of
       populating the distribution with files.

       As such, Dist::Inkt is not so much a distribution builder, as it is a framework for
       writing your own distribution builder.

       Several roles of varying utility are bundled with Dist::Inkt, as is
       Dist::Inkt::Profile::Simple, a subclass of Dist::Inkt which consumes most of these roles.

COMPANIONS

       Dist::Inkt does just one thing - building the tarball from some checkout of the repo.

       Although roles could theoretically be written for other tasks, out of the box, Dist::Inkt
       doesn't do any of the following:

       Minting new distributions
           I'm writing a separate tool, Dist::Inktly::Minty for that.

       Test suite running
           Use App::Prove or App::ForkProve.

       CPAN Uploading
           Use CPAN::Uploader.

       Changing the version number across many files
           Use Perl::Version.

       Integration with version control tools
           Just use "hg" or "svn" or "git" of whatever as you normally would.  None of the files
           generated by Dist::Inkt should probably be checked into your repo.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs to <http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Dist-Inkt>.

SEE ALSO

       If you are not me, then you may well want one of these instead:

       •   Dist::Zilla

       •   Dist::Milla

       •   Minilla

       Various extensions for Dist::Inkt:

       •   Dist::Inkt::DOAP

       •   Dist::Inkt::Profile::TOBYINK

AUTHOR

       Toby Inkster <tobyink@cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

       This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Toby Inkster.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
       the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

       THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING,
       WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.