> Yep. Looking at how CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm are both assuming modules
> > in their queries (not allowing distro names), > > Both CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm understand "install > MLEHMANN/Compress-LZF-2.0.tar.gz" no matter what is in that file. Not good enough. That is not something you can publish as a viable install method, and it's not stable over time (because it includes the maintainer name and version), and it's also not intuitive. Anything more complicated than "foo install bar" isn't really good enough. Adam K > (I'm guessing that pause won't put the > > distro in the index without a .pm file -- though maybe program_name in > > the META.yml will handle that.) > > Any scheme that causes namespace clashes will hardly have a chance to > be accepted. > > The scripts/ directory on CPAN is something you may have overlooked? > > > -- > andreas >
