dzil activity

of course, you are aware that dzil v2 is out, with lots of exciting new features, brought to you by rjbs and the perl foundation.

but it's only one side of the activity floating around dist-zilla... indeed, as dagolden, aevar and others try dzil, they (of course) like it, and start contributing their own plugins.

here's a list of new plugins landed on cpan... first some additional author tests:

• CheckChangesTests - check changelog
  
• CheckExtraTests - runs xt/ tests, but don't copy them to t/
  
• DistManifestTests - check manifest
  
• HasVersionTests - check all your modules have a version
  
• KwaliteeTests - check your kwalitee
  
• MinimumVersionTests - check minimum perl version needed
  
• PodSpellingTests - check pod spelling
  
• PortabilityTests - check if your code is portable
  
• SynopsisTests - check if code in your synopsis compiles
  
• UnusedVarsTests - detects unused vars
  
• ReportVersions - additional test to report version
  

some plugins to complete meta-data:

• Bugtracker - http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=xxxx
• HomePage - http://search.cpan.org/dist/xxxx
  

some plugins to customize your build process:

• ModuleBuild::Custom - for mb
• OverridableMakeMaker - for eumm

some plugins to generate additional files:

• FatPacker - creates a script with all dependencies packed
• InstallGuide - creates an INSTALL file
• ReadmeMarkdownFromPod - README.mkdn file

some plugins to compute your next version number:

• BumpVersionFromGit - version taken from last git tag
• VersionFromPrev - classic perl versions, 1.00 to 1.99

and finally some bundles:

• @AVAR - ævar arnfjörð bjarmason's take on it
  
• @MARCEL - marcel grünauer
• @PDONELAN - patrick donelan

you can install all of them in one go via task-dist-zilla.

they are also available in mandriva, and suggested when installing dist-zilla...