NAME Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides::FromFile - Pull in hand-crafted metadata from a specified file. VERSION version 2.000001 SYNOPSIS For a general overview of the "MetaProvides" family, see Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides This module is tailored to the situation where probing various files for "provides" data is not possible, and you just want to declare some in an external file. [MetaProvides::FromFile] inherit_version = 0 ; optional, default = 1 inherit_missing = 0 ; optional, default = 1 file = some_file.ini ; required reader_name = Config::INI::Reader ; optional, default = Config::INI::Reader meta_no_index ; optional, useless And in "some_file.ini" [Foo::Package] file = some/module/path version = 0.1 OPTION SUMMARY inherit_version Shared Logic with all MetaProvides Plugins. See "inherit_version" in Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides inherit_missing Shared Logic with all MetaProvides Plugins. See "inherit_missing" in Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides meta_no_index Shared Logic with all MetaProvides Plugins. See "meta_no_index" in Dist::Zilla::Plugin::MetaProvides However, given you're hard-coding the 'provides' map in the source file, and given that parameter is intended to exclude *discovered* modules from being indexed, it seems like the smart option would be to simply delete the unwanted entries from the source file. file Mandatory path to a file within your distribution, relative to the distribution root, to extract "provides" data from. reader_name A class that can be used to read the named file. Defaults to Config::INI::Reader. It can be substituted by any class name that matches the following criteria * Can be instantiated via "new" my $instance = $reader_name->new(); * has a "read_file" method on the instance my $result = $instance->read_file( ... ) * "read_file" can take the parameter "file" my $result = $instance->read_file( file => 'path/to/file' ) * "read_file" returns a hashref matching the following structure { 'Package::Name' => { file = 'path/to/file', version => '0.1', } } ROLES "::Role::MetaProvider::Provider" PLUGIN FIELDS file type: required, ro, Str reader_name type: ClassName, ro. default: Config::INI::Reader PRIVATE PLUGIN FIELDS _reader type: Object, ro, built from "reader_name" ROLE SATISFYING METHODS provides A conformant function to the "::Role::MetaProvider::Provider" Role. signature: $plugin->provides() returns: Array of "MetaProvides::ProvideRecord" BUILDER METHODS _build__reader SEE ALSO * "[MetaProvides]" AUTHOR Kent Fredric COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Kent Fredric. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.