---
name: "Dist::Inkt"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libdist-inkt-perl"
version: "0.026-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Dist::Inkt"
---

# Dist::Inkt(3pm)

yet another distribution builder

## NAME

Dist::Inkt - yet another distribution builder

## STATUS

Experimental.

## DESCRIPTION

Dist::Zilla didn't have the prerequisite amount of crazy for me, so I wrote this instead.

Dist::Inkt itself does virtually nothing; it creates an empty directory, generates a MANIFEST file, and then wraps it all up into a gzipped tarball. But it provides various hooks along the way for subclasses to grab hold of. So the general idea is that you write a subclass of Dist::Inkt, which consumes various Moose::Roles to do the actual work of populating the distribution with files.

As such, Dist::Inkt is not so much a distribution builder, as it is a framework for writing your own distribution builder.

Several roles of varying utility are bundled with Dist::Inkt, as is Dist::Inkt::Profile::Simple, a subclass of Dist::Inkt which consumes most of these roles.

## COMPANIONS

Dist::Inkt does just one thing - building the tarball from some checkout of the repo.

Although roles could theoretically be written for other tasks, out of the box, Dist::Inkt doesn't do any of the following:

- **Minting new distributions**

  I'm writing a separate tool, Dist::Inktly::Minty for that.

- **Test suite running**

  Use App::Prove or App::ForkProve.

- **CPAN Uploading**

  Use CPAN::Uploader.

- **Changing the version number across many files**

  Use Perl::Version.

- **Integration with version control tools**

  Just use `"hg"` or `"svn"` or `"git"` of whatever as you normally would. None of the files generated by Dist::Inkt should probably be checked into your repo.

## BUGS

Please report any bugs to \<http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Dist-Inkt\>.

## SEE ALSO

If you are not me, then you may well want one of these instead:

- •

  Dist::Zilla

- •

  Dist::Milla

- •

  Minilla

Various extensions for Dist::Inkt:

- •

  Dist::Inkt::DOAP

- •

  Dist::Inkt::Profile::TOBYINK

## AUTHOR

Toby Inkster \<tobyink@cpan.org\>.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2013-2014 by Toby Inkster.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

## DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.