NAME

App::psst - prompt string setting tool

VERSION

version 0.06

DESCRIPTION

Set-once configuration for ~/.bashrc to show presence of $PERL_LOCAL_LIB_ROOT.

Origin

I wrote a local::lib-based installer for a small project.

I added the obligatory "set up the environment and start a shell in there" script.

I wanted the new subshell to be clearly marked as having local::lib environment, and decided that this functionality doesn't belong in the small project.

Intentions

Polish it a little to make a small CPAN-installable package. Install in all my $HOMEs.

AUTHOR

Copyright (C) 2011 Genome Research Limited

Author Matthew Astley mca@sanger.ac.uk

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Thanks

Thanks to Magnus Manske for some useful discussion of the mechanism,

and this post for convincing me that this is a useful route to sanity http://blogs.perl.org/users/oliver_gorwits/2011/07/locallibs-for-dist-development.html

and to my employer for making it easy to mix free software with $work.

SEE ALSO

psst(1)

Related tools

These are tools I have found links to. I have not yet chosen some to assemble a better working environment.

• Git::CPAN::Hook or CPANPLUS::Dist::GitHook

• App::local::lib::helper (App::local::lib::helper::rationale)

  localenv bash starts a new shell, which psst can configure.

• App::PerlLocalEnv, perl-local-env(1)

  perl-local-lib $DIR activate starts a new shell, which psst can configure.

• App::local::lib::Win32Helper

  This psst has not (yet) been tested with bash under Windows.

• App::perlbrew

  This version of psst knows nothing about perlbrew.