hmm...you should consider whether or not you want to uphold the <9 char filenames. It used to be an issue some years ago...But if your package consists of modules ONLY, then the preferred way is tar.gz the directory whose name should be the name of the module. Inside the directory are the modules including the dirname.pm. But I'm assuming your're interested more in a large app that you want to throw together for the user. In that case, you'll have to consider whether or not you want to throw your modules into the /perl/lib dir wherever it is. (That is easily obtainable by using the first dirname in the @INC or some %Config def.) Then, you should establish some system of installation. Where should the executable (main script) be? A possibly useful module for larger projects will be ExtUtils::MakeMaker. guess what it does...
AgentM Systems or Nasca Enterprises is not responsible for the comments made by AgentM- anywhere.

In reply to Re: Self-Extracting Architecture-Independant Perl Archives? by AgentM
in thread Self-Extracting Architecture-Independant Perl Archives? by princepawn

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.