Hello kcott, Yes, I have the tarball as you describe. But I would prefer that I do it from inside the dist dir (which is where I ran the cpanm --installdeps . from) as I am constantly developing this and it's likely that I will add a dependency on the fly and want to have it installed like this. It's much more convenient this way I find.

Edit: I can create the tarball with a make dist inside the distribution dir but cpanm --installdeps . does not do anything, it says:

--> Working on .
Configuring XXX-0.01 ... OK
<== Installed dependencies for .. Finishing.
[download]

so no joy with this as there are tons of dependencies.