Dist::Z...r::Perl(3)

💖 Dist::Zilla::MVP::Reader::Perl(3) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for Dist::Zilla::MVP::Reader::Perl — it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your friendly neighborhood man pages, so you're in the right place 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

Dist::Zilla::MVP::Reader::Perl — it's the reader for dist.pl files 🎀

like. that's the whole job. it reads the dist.pl. lowkey iconic of it tbh.

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🦋 VERSION 🦋

version 6.040 ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So Dist::Zilla::Config reads in the dist.pl file for a distribution. That's it, that's the vibe. 🫶

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🐚 PERL VERSION 🐚

okay so this is the part where we talk about which perls are invited to the party, and the answer is: any version of perl that's still getting updates from the Perl 5 Porters ✨

basically that means any version of perl released in the last two to three years. So if the most recently released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38. periodt. 💅

ngl this is the dramatic part: even though it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl. 😭 so don't come for her with a downgrade patch, she's not entertaining it.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ricardo SIGNES 😏 <cpan@semiotic.systems>

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2026 by Ricardo SIGNES.

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

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aaaand that's the page, bestie 💖 this was perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-19, and it's filed under Dist::Z...r::Perl(3) — go forth and read your dist.pl files with main character energy ✨🎀🦋