ShipIt::Step::Twitter - ShipIt step to announce the upload on Twitter
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This ShipIt step announces the upload to Twitter.
To use it, just list it in your .shipit file. You might want to use it after the UploadCPAN step, as it is not a good idea to announce the upload before it has gone through - something might go wrong with the upload.
.shipit
UploadCPAN
If this step fails - maybe Twitter is down - a warning is issued, but the shipit process doesn't die. This is because you might have uploaded the distribution to CPAN already, and it would be a shame for the whole process to die just because you're not able to twitter.
In the .shipit file:
twitter.config = /path/to/config/file twitter.distname = Foo-Bar twitter.message = shipped %d %v - soon at %u
You can define three configuration values for this step:
This is the location of the file that contains the Twitter username and password in YAML style. I keep mine in ~/.twitterrc. The first tilde is expanded to the user's home directory. An example file could look like this:
~/.twitterrc
username: foobar password: flurble
The reason not to keep the username and password in the .shipit file directly has to with security. The .shipit file will generally be in the distribution's base directory, so it is easy to make a mistake and to include it in the MANIFEST. This would lead to the password being published on CPAN.
MANIFEST
This variable is mandatory.
This variable is optional; it is the distribution's name. If the variable is not defined, the step will try to read the distribution name from the META.yml file.
This variable is optional; it is the message to send to Twitter. You can use placeholders, which will be expanded. If the variable is not defined, this default message will be used:
shipped %d %v - soon at %u
The following placeholders are recognized:
Will be expanded to the distribution name that you defined in twitter.distname.
twitter.distname
Will be expanded to the distribution's CPAN URL - if the distribution name is Foo-Bar, for example, the URL will be http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar.
Foo-Bar
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Foo-Bar
Will be expanded to the version of the distribution you're shipping.
Will result in a percent sign.
Initializes the ShipIt step object from the shipit configuration file and then the twitter configuration file.
Does the actual twittering.
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
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The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a CPAN site near you. Or see <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARCEL/>.
Marcel Grünauer, <marcel@cpan.org>
<marcel@cpan.org>
Copyright 2007-2008 by the authors.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install ShipIt::Step::Twitter, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm ShipIt::Step::Twitter
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install ShipIt::Step::Twitter
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.