CONTRIBUTING
Thanks for considering contributing to this distribution.
(Please note that numbers in square brackets, for example [0]
refer to references
at the bottom of this file.)
This distribution is managed with Dist::Zilla
[0]. It is not
necessary to install Dist::Zilla to contribute.
Please consider working on the code as stored in the code repository. Patches against the distributed code are welcome, but patches or pull requests against the code in the repository are even more welcome.
The public repository for this code is managed with git and is hosted at GitLab. It is available via the web at:
https://gitlab.com/djerius/p5-qhull
You can submit code changes by forking the repository, pushing your code changes to your clone, and then submitting a merge request. Detailed instructions for doing that is available here:
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/getting_started.html
My primary repository actually uses Mercurial, so if you are more comfortable using that, drop a line to Diab Jerius djerius@cpan.org.
Installing Dependencies
Dependencies for this module are recorded in the META.json
file.
Installation is most easily done with cpanminus
[1], which can be
made available locally via:
$ curl -L https://cpanmin.us/ -o cpanm $ chmod +x cpanm
To install the dependencies into a local directory (to avoid polluting your Perl distribution),
$ export PERL5LIB=${PERL5LIB}:$PWD/local $ cpanm -l local --installdeps --with-recommends --with-develop .
This installs the dependencies into the ./local
directory. Be sure
to clean up the PERL5LIB environment variable when you are done!
Working without Dist::Zilla
This directory contains a working Build.PL that will allow you to
work without Dist::Zilla
.
If you have installed dependencies into a local directory, make sure that
is in your PERL5LIB
path.
Then, as usual,
$ perl Build.PL $ ./Build $ ./Build test
Working with Dist::Zilla
Dist::Zilla
is a tool whose flexibility is derived from a wide range
of plugins. The first step is to install Dist::Zilla
itself:
$ cpanm Dist::Zilla
Then, install the plugins that this module requires. In this example
they are stored locally, to avoid polluting your Perl distribution.
If you haven't already done so, add the local directory to your
PERL5LIB
path:
$ export PERL5LIB=${PERL5LIB}:$PWD/local $ dzil authordeps --missing | cpanm -l local
You should then also install any additional requirements not needed by the dzil build but may be needed by tests or other development:
$ dzil listdeps --author --missing | cpanm -l local $ dzil listdeps --develop --missing | cpanm -l local $ cpanm -l local --installdeps --with-develop .
Once installed, here are some dzil commands you might try:
$ dzil build $ dzil test $ dzil xtest
You can learn more about Dist::Zilla
at http://dzil.org/.
Submitting Patches
Please submit patches as merge requests using the web-based repository tools or as attachments to bug reports.
Submitting Bug Reports
If you have found a bug, but do not have an accompanying patch to fix it, you can submit an issue report
at this website:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=Qhull
or via email to:
bug-qhull@rt.cpan.org
or via email to:
Diab Jerius djerius@cpan.org
Idiosyncracies
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Some files are generated during the build and copied from the release (see the [CopyFilesFromRelease] section in
dist.ini
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References
[0] http://dzil.org/.
[1] https://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus