[prog] perl bundling?

[Jacinta Richardson]

G'day Kathryn,

First I should say that despite my years of "doing stuff" with Perl I've 
never actually had to upload new modules to CPAN.  Thus I know I'm not 
the best person to answer these questions.

I'd suggest that you upload a CPAN bundle.  CPANPLUS appears to be able 
to deal with bundles without a problem.  The code to handle this has 
existed for a year or so.

There are two kinds of bundles.
1: a big archive file with all the modules in it
2: an archive labeled bundle::foo with a foo.pm file in it's root,

I believe the 2nd type are preferred.  You'll notice however, if you 
look at some distributions (eg LWP : 
http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.803/ ) that you can get a big 
tarball with the whole distribution in it: libwww-perl-5.803.tar.gz or 
the individual modules or Bundle::LWP

This is probably the best method for you.

All the best

       Jacinta

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