Greg London <[email protected]>

>So, is the CPAN.pm module still the recommended way to install perl
> modules?
> What is the recommended way for creating modules to upload to CPAN?
> Used to be h2xs a long time ago.

> I'm a bit out of date.

You're not the only one.  These would make good topics for a
meeting/presentation.

BR> >
BR> > Newer perls ship with cpanp as well (p as in plus), which is even slicker.
BR> (And CpanM provides local mini mirror.)
BR>
BR>
BR> > What is the recommended way for creating modules to upload to CPAN?
BR> > Used to be h2xs a long time ago.
BR> >
BR>
BR> Module::Starter and Module::Build are more common today.

There are also 'pinto' to maintain and 'dzil' to release these days.

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote:
BR> See Damian Conway's Perl Best Practices book.
BR> Damian still agrees with most of it.

> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 4:08 AM, Peter Vereshagin
<[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Kind of intrigued: what's new or any changes on the book particularly?
>
> A couple of the modules that he wrote for the book were best thinking then,
> but were bypassed by progress and never fully evolved.
>
> There's an errata page at Oreilly, iirc.
>
> (There are a couple dicta that Uri and I will cheerfully disagree with, and
> Damian's how-to-use-this-book forward encourages workgroups to use the book
> as a starting point / template for their  local standards. I particular,

Another good subject area for a meeting.

We should keep these in mind for the future.  Someone could make some
slides or we could have a group discussion about any of this stuff
some month we have no speaker..

Cheers,

Mike

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