Need a straightforward installation process. about templer

[skx]

I did consider making it available via CPAN, but I assumed I'd have to rename it "App::Templer" or similar, and was too distracted to come up with the best namespace. Suggestions welcome on that front.

For installation I guess there are two options:

• I make it "perl Makefile.PL ; make install", just like a normal CPAN release.
• I update build-templer to make it simpler for Windows.

I assume the latter doesn't work so well? If I'm mistaken please do let me know what part is hard/failing/surprising to you?

[zhiyuan-lin]

I think App::Templer is good, just like App::Dapper. build-templer is easy to use but I want to use CPAN to manage my Perl Modules :).

[skx]

And I like just adding one (generated) script to ~/bin on a bunch of hosts!

But yeah I think I'll be migrating to CPAN shortly, and App::Templer will be the name.

[skx]

This work is almost complete now; please see the CPAN branch.

[skx]

Uploaded to CPAN now - it should appear here:

• http://search.cpan.org/~skx/

For the moment I see that a .tar.gz file is present here:

• http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SK/SKX/

[zhiyuan-lin]

Awesome! I'm waiting for some Chinese mirror to sync ^_^.

[b3]

The migration to using CPAN process has allow to clean the code a lot.
Unfortunately it implied that the generated script (bin/templer) can not be used as a standalone script anymore. In order for the script to work now we need the differents Templer:: modules to be accessible via perl outside the script itself and thus they need to be installed somewhere in PERLLIB directories.

So now we cannot just dropped it in a directory and use it as is.

[b3]

A "standalone" script can easily be build by some Unix shell commands:

cat $(find lib -type f |grep -v 'Templer/Site/New') bin/templer >bin/templer-standalone
sed -i -e '1i\#!/usr/bin/perl' -e '/^require.*Templer/ d' bin/templer-standalone
chmod +x bin/templer-standalone

I am sure that this is not the cleanest way (it depends on shell and should be a trouble on other systems) but that meets my needs for now.

I however do not know how to add it a clean way in the distribution (some extra Makefile target maybe), nor do I know if it you should add the complete "standalone" script feature back into it.

I just ask.

[skx]

For the moment I've hacked up a simple thing, much along the lines of your version. As you say it's a bit nasty, but the following should do the job:

 perl Makefile.PL ; make standalone

Once you run that you'll have ./templer which is standalone. However the module collision means that ./templer --help will show a lot of rubbish before the real output. I will see if I can improve things before a new release, but I'll commit this just now as an interim step.