Now I am waiting for my PAUSE ID on CPAN. My first script to contribute is named xls-tar.pl, a utility, that tries to handle XLS files a little like TAR treats its archives.
Update / 2010-06-13 14:00:
Got my account on PAUSE resp. CPAN acknowledged ("johayek"), so my home directory there is http://search.cpan.org/~johayek/.
Uploaded xls-tar.tar, now waiting for it to show up.
Do scripts (as opposed to modules) get listed within a user's directory?
Update / 2010-06-13 14:25:
xls-tar_1_32 first showed up on ftp.funet.fi (actually ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN) as $CPAN/authors/id/J/JO/JOHAYEK/xls-tar_1_32.pl . Sooooo … – now I am quite proud.
More scripts to appear occasionally …
Yes, now I expect getting tarred and fathered – pls have mercy!!!
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Hi, I think scripts only show up if they have some POD documentation. If that doesn't do it, they might need to be part of an actual distribution (Dist::Zilla to the rescue for that!).
You'll probably need a place holder lib/Foo.pm file which doesn't have anything except declare a package and have a $VERSION number
My script certainly has POD inside.
Thanks for your advice, but that sounds, as if the "script only" handling on PAUSE resp. CPAN is a little messy. And that's really a pity and not quite encouraging. Maybe the folks in charge at PAUSE give it a try to get rid of that bug.
The folks in charge do not read your blog. The contact information is at http://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_04about
Before uploading, you should receive advice and critique from http://lists.perl.org/list/module-authors.html and http://perlmonks.org/?node=Seekers%20of%20Perl%20Wisdom
I think a better way to upload scripts is what was done with ack: http://search.cpan.org/dist/ack/
Though I think I would have packaged it as App::Ack to be a file called app-ack-...tar.gz
You could try to wrap the script's funtionality in an App::XLSTar module (which I believe is the current recommended best practice anyway).
Ideally, CPAN should be able to handle a simple script just fine. However, this sounds like a reasonable compromise to me.
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