Re: Script upload not indexed

[email protected] (Slaven Rezic) Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:37:26 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.scripts
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Andrew Pam <[email protected]> writes:

> I've followed the instructions at
> http://www.cpan.org/scripts/submitting.html and uploaded my script:
>
> Files in directory authors/id/X/XA/XANNI
> pmcheck-1.1.0	4595  Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:15:16 GMT
>
> How long does it take for a script to appear on CPAN?
>

Hi Andrew,

nowadays it's probably better to wrap a script into a normal CPAN
module, possibly under the App:: namespace. Then you get everything for
free: a listing in search.cpan.org and metacpan.org, cpantesters
results, and the script is installable using the various CPAN shells.

Regards,
    Slaven

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