NAME

    Dist::Zilla::Plugin::CommentOut - Comment out code in your scripts and
    modules

VERSION

    version 0.02

SYNOPSIS

     [CommentOut]
     id = dev-only

DESCRIPTION

    This plugin comments out lines of code in your Perl scripts or modules
    with the provided identification. This allows you to have code in your
    development tree that gets commented out before it gets shiped by
    Dist::Zilla as a tarball.

MOTIVATION

    (with brief editorial)

    I use perlbrew and/or perls installed in funny places and I'd like to
    be able to run executables out of by git checkout tree without invoking
    perl -Ilib on every call. To that end I write something like this:

     #!/usr/bin/env perl
     
     use strict;
     use warnings;
     use lib::findbin '../lib';  # dev-only
     use App::MyApp;

    That is lovely, except that the main toolchain installers EUMM and MB
    will convert /usr/bin/perl but not /usr/bin/env perl to the correct
    perl when the distribution is installed. For some reason this is a bug
    in everyone who uses this common convention but not the toolchain.
    There is a handy plugin [SetScriptShebang] that solves that problem but
    the use lib::findbin '../lib'; is problematic because ../lib relative
    to the install location might not be right! With both
    [SetScriptShebang] and this plugin, I can fix both problems:

     [SetScriptShebang]
     [CommentOut]

    And my script will be converted to:

     #!perl
     
     use strict;
     use warnings;
     #use lib::findbin '../lib';  # dev-only
     use App::MyApp;

    Which is the right thing for CPAN. Since lines are commented out, line
    numbers are retained.

PROPERTIES

 id

    The comment id to search for.

 remove

    Remove lines instead of comment them out.

AUTHOR

    Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

    This software is copyright (c) 2017 by Graham Ollis.

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

