Command line applications in a breeze

By Maroš Kollár (‎maros‎) from Vienna.pm, Bicycle.pm
Date: Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:45
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language: English
Tags: commandline moose

Writing command-line applications if often tedious. This does not need to be like this. With the right tools at hand writing command line applications, or adding a command line interface to an existing application or CPAN module is easy and often just a matter of adding a couple lines of code.

In this talk I will

* tell you why adding a cli (command-line interface) to a CPAN module is a good idea
* introduce some techniques that are already out there
* show you my new command-line helper module - MooseX-App
* give you a demo of a simple (?) command-line application domm (http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/user/116) and I wrote while cycling from Passau to the YAPC