Dist::Z...taConfig(3)

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version 6.040 · 9 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 NAME 💖

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaConfig — the little plugin that spills all the Dist::Zilla tea into your distmeta, bestie. It summarizes your Dist::Zilla configuration right into the metadata. ✨

(Yeah, she's from section 3 of the manual — library calls, iykyk.)

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 6.040 — that's the one, no cap.

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so picture this: this plugin slides a top-level x_Dist_Zilla key into your distribution's distmeta. Iconic behavior, honestly. 💅

And what goes in there? It describes:

  • the version of Dist::Zilla that was used, and
  • all the plugins that were used.

Every single plugin gets its name, its package, and its version recorded in the dump. Obsessed. 🫶

And here's the cute part — plugins can level up their own entries by augmenting their implementation of the Dist::Zilla::Role::ConfigDumper role methods, so they can add even more data to this dump. Main character energy fr fr. 👑

More info might get added to the top-level of this metadata as time goes on. So like... stay tuned, bestie. 👀

🐚 PERL VERSION 🐚

This module should work on any version of perl that's still getting updates from the Perl 5 Porters. Translation: 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. 💖

Now listen — it might work on older versions of perl, but there is no guarantee that the minimum required version won't get raised. 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. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Dist::Zilla roles: MetaProvider. Go read that one too, she's cute. ⭐

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Ricardo SIGNES 😏 <cpan@semiotic.systems>

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, legally speaking. 💜

perl v5.42.3 · 2026-10-19 · Dist::Z...taConfig(3) — and that's the whole page, babes. Mwah. 💋🌈

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