Steffen Mueller wrote:
Hi James,
James Muir wrote:
[...]
I've created my directories using 'module-starter' and it
automatically created a nice set of templates which I have been
revising. The Makefile.PL only shows my main module,
Gtk2::Ex::MindMapView. I'm wondering if I need to include the names
of the remaining modules under lib in the Makefile.PL? If so, where
in the Makefile.PL do I place them?
I did try make manifest as above and got:
(/home/james/Gtk2-Ex-MindMapView)>make manifest
make: *** No rule to make target `manifest'. Stop.
which makes sense to me, since I haven't even created a make file yet.
Don't put all of your modules in Makefile.PL. Presumably, they are in
the lib/ subdirectory. Now, to build a distribution for uploading to
CPAN, do the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make manifest
make test
make dist
Then, it's best to test the resulting tar.gz file as if you just
downloaded it from CPAN.
Move it to /tmp or so. Extract it with tar -xzvf Foo.tar.gz.
Confirm that all of your modules are in lib/ and all files you wanted
to ship with your module are in the tarball.
perl Makefile.PL && make && make test
If all tests pass, make install if you wish. If everything works,
upload it via pause.perl.org.
Steffen
Thanks Steffen. This looks like the kind of guidance I needed.
-James
