* similar in spirit to @haarg's Travis CI helper scripts
* *robustly flexible*, working with make, build, and `prove` compatible distributions
* supports integration of both CodeCov and Coveralls coverage testing
* overcomes bugs in AppVeyor and perl tooling
* robust in cases of inaccessible Chocolatey or StrawberryPerl downloads
* ".appveyor.yml" can be a simple drop-in for most distributions
* see <https://github.com/rivy/CI.AppVeyor.helpers-perl> for more information