Newbie Install Issue about finance-quote

[Nurdok]

Ping, how do I install this?

[pkryger]

@Nurdok Not sure if this is the correct, recommend, or for that matter, the best way to install this source code, but I did this:

cpan install Dist::Zilla
cd finance-quote
dzil build
cd Finance-Quote-1.48
cpan .

I agree, that docs would need an update. If someone can confirm this is the correct way I can cut a PR.

[bpschuck]

Assuming you have Perl installed (outside the scope of this question):

cpan install Finance::Quote

or

perl -MCPAN -e shell install Finance::Quote

You would only need to use method described by Mr. Kryger if you needed a recent fix not yet available through CPAN.

[bpschuck]

@pkryger - Dist::Zilla is used by module authors and contributors to prepare packages for uploading to CPAN. It is not meant as a tool for general Perl users to install modules. Thank you.

[pkryger]

@bpschuck I do agree that it's a way better to install the module via CPAN for most of users. I might have miss interpreted the question, as I was trying to fiddle with this project myself a couple a weeks ago. Knowing a bit or two about programming, I consider myself a newbie in this project, and I was struggling to install the tinkered version following the Installation section. From your last comment, I reckon the Dist:Zilla approach I described is a good way for someone who is trying to test a new feature. If so shouldn't the Installation sectoin be updated?

[Edit: fix a typo]

[vincentl]

I was working on some terse documentation to help people get started from cloning the git repo and using dzil. I pushed a dev branch that moves DEV-RELEASE-INFO.org or developer-info.txt and adds a getting started section.

[bpschuck]

Good info there. But maybe incorporate it into Documentation/Hackers-Guide? Looking the CPAN release, I'm assuming the tag would be changed to reflect the current version? Also in the CPAN section, shouldn't the clone be of finance-quote/finance-quote.git and not pjf/finance-quote.git? If you access pjf/finance-quote.git, you get redirected to finance-quote/finance-quote.git. Lastly, the last version uploaded to SourceForge is 1.42, and you need to have permission to upload.

[vincentl]

Good point, see commit f463f30. I moved the CPAN information into Documentation/Release.txt on dev, but I didn't touch the content because I've never done a release.

I incorporated the how-to-dzil into the Hackers-Guide. I updated the later sections to reference github. This should definitely be reviewed by a second set of eyes.

I assume sourceforge is still right for the mailing list.

[vincentl]

Updated Documentation/Hackers-Guide was merged into master, which covers the original issue.