Dist::Z...taxTests(3)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, lemme put you on 💅 — <pink>Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodSyntaxTests</pink> is the manual page we're doing today, and it's literally an author test for Pod syntax. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

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🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 6.040 — iconic, no cap. 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this one is an extension of <purple>Dist::Zilla::Plugin::InlineFiles</purple>, and the way that it just… provides files?? Obsessed. Here's the file it gives you:

• xt/author/pod-syntax.t — a standard Test::Pod test 🌈

And Test::Pod 1.41 gets added as a develop requires dependency. Like, it's just gonna show up in your deps, periodt. 🫶

When you wanna run the release tests you invoke:

dzil test --release

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🧚 PERL VERSION 🧚

okay so lowkey important, listen up 💜

This module should work on any version of perl still receiving updates from the Perl 5 Porters. Which basically means: any version of perl released in the last two to three years. Like, if the most recently released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38. 🍓

and yes bestie, it may work on older versions of perl — but no guarantee is made that the minimum required version won't 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.

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💅 SYNTAX 💅

# Add this to your dist.ini.
[PodSyntaxTests]

# To test for POD validity, run this in the shell:
$ dzil test --release

that's it. that's the whole thing. go off 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Ricardo SIGNES 😏 <cyan>cpan@semiotic.systems</cyan>

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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. 🌸

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k bye bestie, this page was brought to you by perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-19, and it's literally Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PodSyntaxTests — slay, mwah 💋💖