ModuleSnap
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
This provides a facility to take a "snapshot" of the Raku modules you have installed on your system in the form of a skeleton distribution with the modules as dependencies which can be used to reinstall the modules or even install them fresh on a new machine.
The key use cases for this kind of thing would be either that you need to remove and reinstall your Raku installation (rather than just upgrading in place that will leave the modules as they were,) or you want deploy the same modules on another machine to run some application (or duplicate a development environment.)
This is similar in intent to the autobundle
command of Perl 5's cpan
command.
It should work with any module installer that uses the standard Raku installation
mechanisms (such as zef
) and should in theory work with any new
ones that may come along as it simply writes a minimal META file into an otherwise
bare directory. The META file contains the installed modules as it's dependencies
just a like a normal module might.
The primary interface for this is the provided script raku-module-snapshot
and
this module, whilst it may be useful in another context, simply encapsulates the
bulk of the implementation in order to take advantage of precompilation.
METHODS
All of the methods are 'class' methods that can be called on the type object, they could just as easily be exported sub-routines but I feel making them methods allows for easier extension and doesn't pollute the consumers namespace.
method create-meta
method create-meta(Str :$name!, Version :$raku-version = $*RAKU.version, Version :$version = v0.0.1) returns META6
This returns a META6
object initialised with the minimal attributes for it to work.
The name
must be provided.
method get-dists
method get-dists(@exclude-auth = <raku perl private:snapshot>)
This returns a list of the installed Distribution objects, it will skip distributions that appear to either be part of the installed Rakudo or those created by this module. To allow for other uses a list of the 'auth' strings that should be skipped can be provided.
method get-meta
method get-meta(Str :$name!, Version :$raku-version = $*RAKU.version, Version :$version = v0.0.1, :@exclude-auth = <perl private:snapshot>) returns META6
This returns the fully populated META data that will be serialised to create the
META6.json file. name
is required (and will form the name of the
created distribution,) all of the other arguments have defaults that are
sensible for the application.