It took me about a week and a half to get mine. I was on tenterhooks the entire time, waiting to upload my module. In the meantime, I played with the module some more, made a couple of last minute changes (based on some excellent suggestions from tye) and wound up writing 33 tests for less than 70 lines of code. When I finally got my ID and uploaded, I forgot to include the tests in the manifest :)

Side note: 33 tests for 70 lines of code definitely seems excessive to me. However, since I was subclassing CGI.pm, I had to have my module operate in both a function and OO mode, thus forcing me to essentially duplicate all of the tests.

Serious congratulations on applying for an ID. Do all of us a favor: write down everything you did to get your first module uploaded and then post a tutorial. I had a couple of unexpected hoops to jump through and I didn't write things down, dang it (though, to be fair, some monks have stated that my hoops were not typical).

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: How long does it take to get a CPAN id? by Ovid
in thread How long does it take to get a CPAN id? by rbc

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