Perlcritic Processor

Purpose

Analyzes Perl code using Perl::Critic.

The Rust alternative is iperlcritic: PPI and the severity-5 policies, in-process, with perlcritic’s violations and positions. Switching is perlcritic → iperlcritic in the stanza header; .perlcriticrc is read as before.

How It Works

Discovers .pl and .pm files in the project (excluding common build tool directories), runs perlcritic on each file, and records success in the cache. A non-zero exit code from perlcritic fails the product.

This processor supports batch mode.

If a .perlcriticrc file exists, it is automatically added as an extra input so that configuration changes trigger rebuilds.

Source Files

• Input: **/*.pl, **/*.pm
• Output: none (checker)

Configuration

[processor.checker.perlcritic]
args = []
dep_inputs = []

Batch support

The tool accepts multiple files on the command line. When batching is enabled (default), rsconstruct passes all files in a single invocation for better performance.

Clean behavior

This processor is a Checker — rsconstruct clean outputs is a no-op for it (checkers produce no outputs). See Clean behavior and rsconstruct clean.