As I was not satisfied with the idea of not doing anything I started to learn about
Module::Starter. I installed it and created a new distribution with it
just to find out it did not include the license key in Makefile.PL. As that is
just what I was complaining about last week in Licenses in META.yml on CPAN
I decided to ask about it on IRC.
I was lucky as Ricardo SIGNES was also awake who explained that actually he has
stopped using Module::Starter as he is writing Dist::Zilla
that provides much better project management capabilities. I pointed him at
my blog entry and after reading it he asked me if I know the expression
yak shaving. I've heared it, actually I even read about it in
in The Productive Programmer
I mentioned earlier in The Quest for the Perfect Editor but I did not really understood it.
Actually I think I understood it back when I read the book but promtly forgotten
it as I did not have any way to connect the expression to the actions or lack of
actions.
I was so lucky to find Ricardo on IRC as he explained:
I need to fix this bug, but first I better eat something so I don't get tired.
So I'm going to have some cereal, but I'm out of milk.
So I'll go get some milk. But I heard that yak milk is the best, so I'll go out to Nepal to find a yak.
But they're all so hairy, I can't get to their udders. So, first I'll just shave the yak.
This is just the way you have to teach. Now I can remember it much more easily.
So I spent some time trying to understand Dist::Zilla but came to the conclusion that
what I need now is still Module::Starter that I might later need to combine with Dist::Zilla.
Now that I know Dist::Zilla is not really a replacement for Module::Starter I patched the
latter to include the license keys in Makefile.PL (it already worked did so with Build.PL).
I hope it will get in the next release.
Then I went on and integrated Module::Starter in Padre
and today I released v0.11 if it. I'll write about it shortly in a separate post.
