Hi all, I'm not sure how relevant my question is, but I can't find the answer elsewhere, so I'll ask you all. Suppose I wrote and released a perl module that I intend to use in other projects, to be installed as automatic dependencies, etc and all is fine - the answer #1 here is CPAN. Now comes slight adjustment: I wrote and uploaded to CPAN a perl script, which I also intend to use in other projects and to be installed as an automatic dependency. The problem is that this script cannot be then found neither using web nor 'perl -CPAN' searches, even though the script package has all attributes that could theoretically be required for this, such as, POD section, META.yml etc.

So, here's the question: is this behavior intentional? Or it is so just noone bumped into this before? OTOH if there's a way to tell CPAN that a package comes without modules, but should be available in searches, would someone please tell me how? Thank you.

In reply to scripts on CPAN by dk

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