A bare-bones, Kwalitee-compliant, semantic-versioned module starter (xxx_module.pl):
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Creates 'XXX-Module-1.001001.tar.gz' in the current directory.
# This is a boiler plate for making a CPAN package.
#
# Start here:
# tar -zxvf XXX-Module-1.001001.tar.gz; grep -R XXX XXX-Module-1.00100
+1;
#
# Version: 20120114
# URL: http://www.perlmonks.org/?viewmode=public;node_id=713740
use MIME::Base64 qw(decode_base64);
open(my $TARGZ, ">", "XXX-Module-1.001001.tar.gz") or die $!;
local $/;
print $TARGZ decode_base64(scalar <DATA>);
__END__
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After modifications to XXX-Module-1.001001/*, one can create the dist package with the following commands:
cd XXX-Module-1.001001;
perl Makefile.PL;
make disttest tardist;
ls -l XXX-Module-1.001001.tar.gz; # submit this to PAUSE
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