perlalien/alien

Create and use external (non-Perl) dependencies for CPAN!

alien's Issues

set .gitattributes files to render alienfiles as perl across PerlAlien repos

alienfiles are pure perl code but render on GitHub as plain text. This can be corrected by adding this line to a .gitattributes file in each repo:

alienfile linguist-language=perl

I would submit PRs but there are too many repos under the organisation for this to be efficient. The script below is one approach to automation assuming all repos are at the same level.

use 5.010;
use strict;
use warnings;

use Path::Tiny;
use Cwd qw /getcwd/;

my @dirs = grep {-d} (path (getcwd())->children);

foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
    my $has_alienfile = grep {path($_)->basename eq 'alienfile'} (path($dir)->children);
    next if !$has_alienfile;
    my $file = path($dir, '.gitattributes');
    $file->touch;
    my $contents = $file->slurp;
    if (not $contents =~ /alienfile/ms) {
        $file->append("alienfile linguist-language=perl\n");
    }
}

Update Alien.pm to reflect modern events

Alien.pm was created a long time ago as an aspiration. Today many Alien modules have actually been implemented. Because Alien.pm comes up as the first entry when you search on metacpan Alien, it should reflect the current state of events.

1. Alien::Base is a common (though by no means universal) base class or framework for creating Alien distributions
2. #native on irc.perl.org, and the google groups mailing list are good places to discuss issues related to Alien.
3. There is a github organization Perl5-Alien that attempts to coordinate those who are interested in collaborating on Alien modules.

I've forked Alien.pm and added some modest links in the documentation that I think would help potential Alien developers. I've done this in the hope that these changes will be integrated in a future version of Alien.pm. I'm willing to do the actual release if the current PAUSE owner @crucially does not have the time.