# from Robert Rothenberg
# on Friday 19 August 2005 09:36 am:
>I don't think patches to Module::Starter or similar packages will
> help. The problem isn't with the starter utilities, it's what comes
> out the other end when distributions are built. (So an eventual patch
> for Module::Build, perhaps?)
The problem *is* with the starter utilities, or we wouldn't be having
this discussion. Boilerplate is a pretty primitive way to rough-out a
module when you could instead use config files and custom templates to
get things like $AUTHOR into the text.
To put it another way: garbage in, garbage out. If you start with the
right content instead of a boilerplate, you don't have to test for junk
coming out the other end.
Now, let's say we all used Module::Starter instead of h2xs. We may
still want to test the output rather than just trusting that "all is
well" But the regex /A. U. Thor/ quickly becomes fairly useless as a
test. What you really need is a test for an AUTHOR section and some
contact info, etc.
Furthermore, while I would like this to be available as an automagic
feature in Module::Build, there better be some way to disable it
because we don't want tools that dictate policy like that.
If your goal is to keep people from uploading modules with h2xs
boilerplate pod, a new test module (even a builtin to Module::Build)
isn't going to accomplish this.
--Eric
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