I have looked for a complete introduction to creating modules, but have yet to find the following questions.

Background: I have a large library of modules that I have written. I am working on three machines (Win2k, Linux, Mac) that are not connected. I want to have an easy way to distribute/update modifications to the modules, including the dependent modules (e.g. DBI, DBD::mysql) using CPAN.

  1. Is h2xs sufficient for my needs?
  2. Will it handle other modules (e.g. DBI, DBD::mysql) if they are not loaded on the machine?
  3. Does CPAN handle this automatically? I do not want to necessarily include the other modules, just have CPAN know enough to install them as dependencies if they are not already installed.
  4. How should I handle versioning of the module collection? Once installed, I want to easily update the files.

2002-04-21 Edit by Corion : Closed <OL> tag.

In reply to Creating modules for installation by wwvuillemot

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