My question ( yes, I actually have one ) is whether or not members of the monastery believe my code is useful enough for me to apply for CPAN id and open a module and start maintaining this.

Please don't get the impression CPAN only hosts quality code, or that it only should host quality code. The only requirement for code to live on CPAN is that it should be freely distributable.

Don't let your decision whether to upload or not depend on what a handful of people here will say. Perlmonks isn't CPAN, and CPAN isn't perlmonks. I'd say, upload it to CPAN if you are satisfied with it, and then just let history run its course. If people like it, they'll use it. If they don't, you might get suggestions for improvement, but if not, then it's just taking up a bit of diskspace.

Abigail

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