Dist::Z...::Basic(3)

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version 6.040 · 9 versions
, in fedora 44

💖 Dist::Z...::Basic(3) — like, the manual page, bestie 💖

okay so you found the page for Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Basic, and it lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your friendly neighborhood man pages (that's the (3) vibe — perl module docs, iykyk). Pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this. 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Basic — the basic plugins you need to maintain and release CPAN dists 🫶

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 6.040 — yes, that's the one you're running, no cap.

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

This plugin is literally the "first step" training-wheels-but-make-it-slaying bundle for using Dist::Zilla. It will not munge any of your code — hands off, bestie 🙈 — but it will generate a Makefile.PL, and it makes releasing distributions easy and reliable. Iconic behaviour, honestly.

Here's the whole squad it bundles in with their default configuration:

  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::GatherDir
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::PruneCruft
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ManifestSkip
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaYAML
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::License
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Readme
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExtraTests
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ExecDir
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ShareDir
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::Manifest
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::TestRelease
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::ConfirmRelease
  • Dist::Zilla::Plugin::UploadToCPAN

fourteen of them, all showing up together, main character ensemble cast energy 👑

🦋 PERL VERSION 🦋

This module should work on any version of perl that's still receiving updates from the Perl 5 Porters. Translation: any perl released in the last two to three years, fr fr. (So like, if the most recently released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38. Slay.)

⚠️ Even though it might work on older perls, there is no guarantee that the minimum required version won't get bumped. The version may be increased for any reason, and there's no promise that patches to lower the minimum required perl will be accepted. So don't come for her about your ancient perl install, okay? 💅

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

  • Core Dist::Zilla plugins: @Filter.
  • Dist::Zilla roles: PluginBundle, PluginBundle::Easy.

go read those next, bestie, they're the lore 🌈

👑 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.

aaaand that's the whole page, you ate it 💅✨ built on perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-19 — giving very much Dist::Z...::Basic(3) energy. mwah, go ship a dist 🍓🫶

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