[GNC-dev] Flatpak GnuCash and Finance::Quote

[Bruce Schuck]

On 10/10/22 12:01 PM, Geert Janssens wrote:

> In practice, can you refer to an example invocation of Dist::Zilla 
> (perhaps in the F::Q build system) we can take as a basis to write
> such a helper script ?

Geert,

The dist.ini 
(https://github.com/finance-quote/finance-quote/blob/master/dist.ini) 
file in the GitHub F::Q repository is the control file for Dist::Zilla's 
dzil command. However, since Dist::Zilla will automatically attempt to 
find dependencies, the [Prereqs] and [Prereqs / TestRequires ] stanzas 
usually contain just those modules that Dist::Zilla could not 
automatically figure out.

But, in the META.json or META.yml file created by Dist::Zilla when 
creating or releasing a package does contain a more thorough list of 
requirements.

The caviat is that list is still not complete because of how 
installations via CPAN works, but will be enough for someone to execute 
"cpan Finance::Quote" and install the latest/current release.

For example, dist.ini could contain "A::B = 0". While building the 
package, Dist::Zilla may find that "A::B" depends on "C::D" and add that 
to the META files. But it may not find that "C::D" depends on "E::F", 
"E::G", and "Y::Z". These get handled automatically when installing the 
module/package using CPAN.

Bruce S.