Re: Script upload not indexed

Terrence Brannon <[email protected]> writes:

> Which app builder module do you like the most slaven? I wrote up a summary
> of the CPAN scripting frameworks here -
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=829276
>
> App::Cmd is maybe the most widely used.

Well, I use nothing :-) Usually I take the script as is, add the
necessary distribution files (Makefile.PL etc.), and add a dummy App::*
module for the CPAN/PAUSE indexer.

Regards,
    Slaven

>
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Slaven Rezic <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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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