You may find How to make a CPAN Module Distribution and the links of use. I personally find the makemanifest.pl wiidget very handy for crating a clean distro.

The one glaring omission that I see is NO DOCUMENTATION. A module is worth using because it WORKS and is EASY TO USE. If I have to RTFS to work out how to use it.... Many modules on CPAN suffer from this flaw BTW. Especially a number of core ones. I use a number of say URI and LWP idioms that work fine but are essentially completely undocumented outside of RTFS. Generally I found them because merlyn or some other programmer has demonstratated them. Bad docs are also discouraging, especially code snippets that don't work as advertised, not naming any names.

The other important thing is tests. You code will probably have some issues. Fixing one may lead to another. When you release version 2 it is good for you to know it passes all the tests for version 1. It is however potentially vital to your end users. See Autogenerate Test Scripts for a handy widget.

And as Abigail-II says upload it and see what people think.

cheers

tachyon

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