Dist::...d::Core(3pm)

okay bestie, welcome to the Dist::...d::Core(3pm) page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection — aka the manual for Dist::Build::Core 💅✨. It’s giving “core functions that keep the whole build from spiraling,” and honestly? We love that for us.

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💖 NAME 💖

Dist::Build::Core — core functions for Dist::Build. periodt.

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.028 — yes, that exact version, bestie. No cap.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so this plugin contains many of the core actions of Dist::Build. It’s lowkey the utility-player of the build world: not doing the most, just holding a whole bunch of essential stuff together. Iconic behavior, honestly 🫶.

🦋 Delegates 🦋

These are the delegated functions — every single one, with all the lil details intact:

• copy_file($source, $destination) — copy the file $source to $destination.
• copy_executable($source, $destination) — copy the executable $source to $destination.
• manify($source, $destination, $section) — manify $source to $destination, as section $section.
• mkdir($target, $dir, %options) — this one makes sure the given directory exists.
• tap_harness(%options) — this runs tests for the dist.
  • test_files — the list of files to run.
  • jobs — the number of concurrent test files to run.
  • color — this enables color in the harness.
• install(%options) — this installs the distribution.
  • install_map — the map of intermediate paths to install locations, as produced by ExtUtils::InstallPaths.
  • verbose — this enables verbose mode.
  • uninst — this uninstalls files before installing the new ones.
• auto_PL($dir) — this will find any foo.PL file and run them to generate the matching foo file. It takes one optional argument, $dir, which is the directory that will be searched. It defaults to 'lib'.
• dump_binary($filename, $content, %named_arguments) — write $content to $filename as binary data.
• dump_text($filename, $content, %named_arguments) — write $content to $filename as text of the given encoding.
• dump_json($filename, $content, %named_arguments) — write $content to $filename as JSON.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> — the author, slay 💜.

🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Leon Timmermans.

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

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okay that’s the whole manual, bestie 🫶 — footer realness: perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-03-21, and the page is Dist::...d::Core(3pm). go off and build something iconic 💖✨