NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaData::BuiltWith - Report what versions of things your distribution was built against VERSION version 0.01018204 SYNOPSIS [MetaData::BuiltWith] include = Some::Module::Thats::Not::In::Preq exclude = Some::Module::Youre::Ashamed::Of show_uname = 1 ; default is 0 uname_call = uname ; the default uname_args = -s -r -m -p ; the default is -a DESCRIPTION Often, distribution authors get module dependencies wrong. So in such cases, its handy to be able to see what version of various packages they built with. Some would prefer to demand everyone install the same version as they did, but that's also not always necessary. Hopefully, the existence of the metadata provided by this module will help users on their end machines make intelligent choices about what modules to install in the event of a problem. METHODS mvp_multivalue_args This module can take, as parameters, any volume of 'exclude' or 'include' arguments. metadata This module scrapes together the name of all modules that exist in the ""Prereqs"" section that Dist::Zilla collects, and then works out what version of things you have, applies the various include/exclude rules, and ships that data back to Dist::Zilla via this method. See "Dist::Zilla"'s "MetaProvider" role for more details. EXAMPLE OUTPUT ( "META.json" ) "x_BuiltWith" : { "modules" : { "Dist::Zilla::Role::MetaProvider" : "4.101612", "File::Find" : "1.15", "File::Temp" : "0.22", "Module::Build" : "0.3607", "Moose" : "1.07", "Test::More" : "0.94" }, "perl" : "5.012000", "platform" : "MSWin32" }, AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Kent Fredric . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.