{"id":1438,"date":"2018-09-27T21:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.briang.org\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2018-09-27T21:00:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T20:00:43","slug":"distzilla-why-you-should-use-starter-instead-of-basic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/?p=1438","title":{"rendered":"Dist::Zilla &#8211; Why you should use @Starter instead of @Basic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.perl.org\/users\/grinnz\/2016\/07\/distzilla---why-you-should-use-starter-instead-of-basic.html\"><strong>Dist::Zilla &#8211; Why you should use @Starter instead of @Basic<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re currently using [@Basic], there are a few reasons you should consider switching over. [@Basic] has become somewhat outdated as it needs to maintain compatibility with existing configs; [@Starter] modernizes the base plugin set. For example, it includes the important [MetaJSON] plugin for generating modern CPAN metadata, and it uses [RunExtraTests] to run xt\/ (extra) tests directly, which is now generally preferred over rewriting them into the t\/ directory with the [ExtraTests] plugin. It also adds a few popular plugins, such as [Test::ReportPrereqs], which generates a test that lists all distribution prereqs and the currently installed versions, very helpful for debugging test failures.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dist::Zilla &#8211; Why you should use @Starter instead of @Basic If you&#8217;re currently using [@Basic], there are a few reasons you should consider switching over. [@Basic] has become somewhat outdated as it needs to maintain compatibility with existing configs; [@Starter] modernizes the base plugin set. For example, it includes the important [MetaJSON] plugin for generating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[451,23,5],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-authorgrinnz","tag-cpandistzilla","tag-perl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.briang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}