Dist::...pender(3pm)

💅 NAME 💅

Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Prepender — ok bestie, this one prepends lines at the top of your perl files. Yes. That's the whole gig. And it slays.

(also the manual page shows up as Dist::...pender(3pm), from the User Contributed Perl Documentation set — you know, the little truncated-glam name 💖)

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✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.004 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

so in your dist.ini you're gonna write this:

[Prepender]
copyright = 0
line = use strict;
line = use warnings;
skip = t/data/.+\.pl
skip = something-else-unnecessary

and that's it, that's the whole vibe ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the tea: this plugin takes the lines you specify and prepends them into each Perl module or program inside your distribution. And for scripts that have a shebang line? The lines get inserted just after it — because obviously we're not gonna ruin a shebang, that would be a crime 💀

Why would you even want this? Bestie, two reasons, both iconic:

• enforcing a lil set of pragmas across all your files — and since pragmas are lexical, they'll be active for the whole file 🪄
• adding some copyright comments, which is what the fsf recommends 👑

The module accepts the following options in its dist.ini section:

• copyright — whether to insert a boilerplate copyright comment. defaults to true. ✅
• line — anything you want to add. may be specified multiple times. no default. 📝
• skip — regexp of file names to not prepend to. may be specified multiple times. no default. 🙈

fr fr, line and skip can show up over and over, and there's no default for either one — you gotta actually say what you want, bestie 💅

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

You can look for information on this module at:

• Search CPAN

<http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Prepender>

• See open / report bugs

<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Prepender>

• Mailing-list (same as Dist::Zilla)

<http://www.listbox.com/subscribe/?list_id=139292>

• Git repository

<http://github.com/jquelin/dist-zilla-plugin-prepender>

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

<http://annocpan.org/dist/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Prepender>

• CPAN Ratings

<http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Prepender>

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Jerome Quelin 🫶

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💜 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin.

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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and that's the whole page bestie — this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-10-13, and yes it's giving Dist::...pender(3pm) energy the whole way through 🌈⭐ mwah 💋