remove MI catalyst plugin, and replace with a placeholder cpanfile

[karenetheridge]

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[jjn1056]

+1 from me. @haarg thoughts?

[haarg]

I definitely would love to remove the use of Module::Install from this dist. I have some concerns about this particular approach.

The primary purpose of the generated Makefile.PL it to list and assist installing prereqs. The secondary purpose is to install the Catalyst application, although I don't know how common that is. Creating a release tarball is probably rather rarely used.

Dist::Zilla, on the other hand, is primarily meant to generate a release tarball. Obviously, it can also give you lists of dependencies or install the release. But its priorities are rather different. Also, Dist::Zilla's compatibility priorities are organized around CPAN authors, where Catalyst apps are more often "users" and less likely to be using the most modern software.

So I think I'd like to see something that is more organized around different priorities. For installing prerequisites, using a cpanfile and including appropriate instructions seems like it could be an adequate solution. For installing, I'm not certain. Possibly generating a cpanfile and a dist.ini that uses it would be good. There aren't any other obviously good "EUMM but not shitty" solutions that exist.

[jjn1056]

FWIW I use DistZilla with the [Prereqs::FromCPANfile plug-in. That way for day to day and easy use with containers I track dependencies with the cpanfile and install directly with Cpanm but for the two applications I deploy as a tarball I can do that as well

maybe always do a cpanfile and add a switch for dzil.ini?

Honestly a redo of this that creates a basic container would be better. TBH I haven’t used ::Devel in years because I always create a container now.

[karenetheridge]

I think perhaps just adding an empty cpanfile (except for a dep on Catalyst itself), with some references to Dist::Zilla documentation (or [@Git::Starter] might be best? Since the primary usecase is for building an application that won't be cpan-installable, a dist.ini is not going to be useful for that case.

[karenetheridge]

I've replaced the dist.ini with a placeholder cpanfile for now. That can be built on later -- my main goal here is to remove the Module::Install bits :)