NAME
Dist::Zilla::Plugin::LatestPrereqs - adjust prereqs to use latest version available
VERSION
version 0.3
SYNOPSIS
At the BOTTOM of your dist.ini file:
[LatestPrereqs]DESCRIPTION
This plugin will filter over all your declared or discovered prerequisites, contact CPAN, and adjust the version to the latest one available.
This will make sure that your module will be installed with the latest version available on CPAN at the time you built your package.
The most common use for this techinique is for Task modules. You can rebuild your Task module on a regular basis to make sure it has the latest versions of your dependencies.
Please note that this plugin only makes sure that the version of the prereq is the latest at the time you build your package, not the latest at the time the package is installed.
To do that it would require updates to the CPAN toolchain. Although I would welcome that, this plugin implements the next best thing.
EXTRA REQUIREMENTS
This plugin uses the CPAN module, but hides the output, so make sure you have your cpan shell properly configured before trying to use this.
BUGS
This modules abuses the internals of the CPAN::Meta::Prereqs module. This is a bug, but right now that module does not provide an API to traverse its internals.
As soon as it does, I'll rewrite this module to use it.
Until then, this module might break with new releases of CPAN::Meta::Prereqs.
CREDITS
Marcel Gruenauer (hanekomu) described something like this in his article "Repeatedly installing Task::* distributions":
http://hanekomu.at/blog/dev/20091005-1227-repeatedly_installing_task_distributions.html
But the method he suggested does not work because it does not force the latest version of the module to be installed.
A Dist::Zilla plugin that implements what Marcel describes is also available, see Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::SkipInstall.
SEE ALSO
Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MakeMaker::SkipInstall.
AUTHOR
Pedro Melo, <melo at cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2009-2010 Pedro Melo.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.