Re: CPAN newbie submitter question
[email protected] ((Andreas J. Koenig))
| Newsgroups | perl.cpan.discuss |
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>>>>> On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:05:03 -0400, Ricardo SIGNES <[email protected]> said: > * Nathan Lewis <[email protected]> [2005-08-15T16:54:12] >> > The distribution contains a blib/ directory and is >> > therefore not being >> > indexed. Hint: try 'make dist'. >> >> I fixed it on my machine by running make clean in my >> directory and then deleting the Makefile before re >> taring the directory. > Are you manually tarring your distribution? Don't do that. > Are you using Module::Build or ExtUtils::MakeMaker? You should be. > If you use (say) ExtUtils::MakeMaker, you will do this: > perl Makefile.PL > make > make manifest > make disttest > make dist > And you will have a tarball ready to upload. All very true. And in addition please let me tell you that you never, never, never will be allowed to upload a tarball with the same name again. Even after deleting a file, that name is out of reach for you. New upload, new name. The details are in CPAN/modules/04pause.html. Hope this helps, -- andreas