Re: nearing the home stretch

Steffen Mueller wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> James Muir wrote:
> [...]
>
>> I've created my directories using 'module-starter' and it 
>> automatically created a nice set of templates which I have been 
>> revising. The Makefile.PL only shows my main module, 
>> Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView. I'm wondering if I need to include the names 
>> of the remaining modules under lib in the Makefile.PL? If so, where 
>> in the Makefile.PL do I place them?
>>
>> I did try make manifest as above and got:
>>
>> (/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView)>make manifest
>> make: *** No rule to make target `manifest'.  Stop.
>>
>> which makes sense to me, since I haven't even created a make file yet.
>
>
> Don't put all of your modules in Makefile.PL. Presumably, they are in 
> the lib/ subdirectory. Now, to build a distribution for uploading to 
> CPAN, do the following:
>
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make manifest
> make test
> make dist
>
> Then, it's best to test the resulting tar.gz file as if you just 
> downloaded it from CPAN.
>
> Move it to /tmp or so. Extract it with tar -xzvf Foo.tar.gz.
> Confirm that all of your modules are in lib/ and all files you wanted 
> to ship with your module are in the tarball.
> perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
> If all tests pass, make install if you wish. If everything works, 
> upload it via pause.perl.org.
>
> Steffen
>
>
Thanks Steffen. This looks like the kind of guidance I needed.
-James