Chapter 5: Submitting Your Module to CPAN

Chapter 5 - Submitting Your Module to CPAN
by?Sam Tregar?
Apress ? 2002
Companion Web Site

Overview

AMONG THE MANY GIFTS Larry Wall gave the Perl community is an aversion to rules and regulations. This is reflected in the Perl language as well as by the Perl community- there's always more than one way to do it, and freedom of choice reigns. However, CPAN requires a different approach. As a shared resource, it would quickly dissolve into anarchy without a few rules to govern submissions.

A modicum of order is maintained on CPAN by a group of Perl elders who share a single mailing [e-mail]. The group that runs [e-mail] is responsible for two important tasks-registering new CPAN authors and accepting new CPAN modules for inclusion in the Module List. This address isn't a mailing list (you can't subscribe to it), but it does have a Web interface where you can read messages sent there: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/modules.

This chapter will show you the best way to make requests to [e-mail] and what to expect in response. I'll also cover the automated services offered by the Perl Author Upload SErver (PAUSE). Once you're registered as a CPAN author you'll use PAUSE to upload your modules.