Dear Perl Monks,

I have been developing a GUI under PerlTk for several years (https://github.com/gllore/LSeismicUnix_cpan). I would like others to be able to install the project and test it out.

At this early stage in the preparation, my main question is: Should I upload the project as an application or as a "module", If you advise, I am also prepared NOT to upload the project to CPAN and leave it as a resident of the github instead.

I have chosen the name carefully and a quick google search shows that it can be directly related to a C-based open-source application (Seismic Unix) that it needs to function. ("L" stands for Louisiana). I was intending to give this project a CPAN version number 0.7_6 for testing. I recently got a PAUSE account, and am starting to Prepare my first distribution using tools from ExtUtils::MakeMaker

PAUSE suggested I contact PrePAN users for advice but I have not been able to enter their site effectively. So, I have turned toward the Monastery for advice.

My proposed project's "lib" distribution directory contains many scripts (in ~/script), packages (in several subdirectories),C code in (lib/c) and Fortran (in lib/fortran) code. The C and Fortran codes are compiled by the user post-installation but interact with the GUI. The GUI uses Tk.

What do you advise? Should I prepare to upload under the App: namespace upload under LSeismic_Unix-0.7_6 or is this mixed-language project not appropriate for uploading to CPAN.

Thanks in advance for your wisdom,

gllore 

Makefile.PL:

use strict;
use warnings;

use 5.26.1;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    NAME          => 'LSeismicUnix',
    AUTHOR        => 'Juan Lorenzo <gllore@lsu.edu>',
    VERSION_FROM  => './LSeismicUnix.pm',
    ABSTRACT_FROM => './LSeismicUnix.pm',
    LICENSE       => 'perl',
    PREREQ_PM     => {
        'Clone'           => '0.45',
        'File::Slurp'     => '9999.32',
        'MIME::Base64'    => '3.16',
        'Moose'           => '2.2015',
        'PDL::Core'       => '2.028',
        'Module::Refresh' => '0.17',
        'Shell'           => '0.73.1',
        'Time::HiRes'     => '1.9764',
        'Tk'              => '804.036',
        'Tk::JFileDialog' => '2.20',

    },

    TEST_REQUIRES => {

        #          'Test::More' => '0.47'
    },

    # only needed during build but not later
    BUILD_REQUIRES => {
        #        'Other::Module' => '0'
    },

    # required scripts
    PL_FILES => {
        './lib/LSeismicUnix/script/post_installation.pl' => 'LSeismicU
+nix',
#        './lib/LSeismicUnix/script/post_installation_c_compile.pl' =>
+ 'LSeismicUnix',
    },

    META_MERGE => {
        'meta-spec' => { version => 2 },
        resources   => {
            repository => {
                type => 'git',
                url  =>
                  'git://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-MakeM
+aker.git',
                web =>
                  'https://github.com/Perl-Toolchain-Gang/ExtUtils-Mak
+eMaker',
            },
        },
    },

    # Documentation accessible within the GUI with Mouse-button-3 clic
+k
    # So separate file files are not used
    MAN3PODS => {},

    dist => {
        COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f',
        SUFFIX   => 'gz',

    }

);




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In reply to Should my project be uploaded to CPAN as a module or an Application? by gllore

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