Comment out code in your scripts and modules
[CommentOut]
id = dev-only
This plugin comments out lines of code in your Perl scripts or modules with the provided identification. This allows you to have code in your development tree that gets commented out before it gets shiped by Dist::Zilla as a tarball.
(with brief editorial)
I use perlbrew and/or perls installed in funny places and I'd like to be able to run
executables out of by git checkout tree without invoking perl -Ilib on
every call. To that end I write something like this:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib::findbin '../lib'; # dev-only
use App::MyApp;
That is lovely, except that the main toolchain installers EUMM and MB will
convert /usr/bin/perl but not /usr/bin/env perl to the correct perl
when the distribution is installed. For some reason this is
a bug in everyone who uses this common convention but not the toolchain. There
is a handy plugin [SetScriptShebang] that solves that problem but the
use lib::findbin '../lib'; is problematic because ../lib relative to
the install location might not be right! With both [SetScriptShebang]
and this plugin, I can fix both problems:
[SetScriptShebang]
[CommentOut]
And my script will be converted to:
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
#use lib::findbin '../lib'; # dev-only
use App::MyApp;
Which is the right thing for CPAN. Since lines are commented out, line numbers are retained.
The comment id to search for.
Remove lines instead of comment them out.
Graham Ollis plicease@cpan.org
This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Graham Ollis.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.