Hi,
Is there a way to post a complete app in tgz format in Perlmonks?

I was answering to a person regarding mail queues 486515 and I had built a mailer application I called the tkmailer. Iwanted to post it here, but it's several directories like the client, the server, etc.

The app is complete but was built in a hurry for a specific client so it's not ready to package as is. It has some interesting stuff like a recursive algorithim that overcomes some limitations on HTML::Template, it also has some Tk tricks, and a simple server that injects mails into qmail at high speed.

I though it might be nice to share but it would have to a tgz.

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Re: Posting Packaged Applications
by xdg (Monsignor) on Aug 25, 2005 at 13:30 UTC

    How about just putting your tarball on a web server somewhere and posting a link to it?

    -xdg

    Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.

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      That's what I was going to do but I didn't know if it was standard practice here.
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        I don't think there is a standard practice here for that yet. ;-) Nominally, we point to CPAN for stuff, but if you've not posted it there, yet, there goes "standard practice" ;-)

        Of course, the other question is, why not post it to CPAN? There is the concept of Release Early, Release Often. which may be a useful idea here ;-) GrandFather once wondered about this. Once you put it on CPAN, you can polish it up and release newer and newer versions, and also link to it from here easily.

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Re: Posting Packaged Applications
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 26, 2005 at 20:10 UTC
    I wrote a script (using Archive::Tar) (Sorry can't get to it from this machine) that packagages files into a tar file(tgz is possible), renames this to "BM6", packs it into a Tar::Archive, modifies it to get a valid BMP-Header and finally converts it to XPM-Format.

    End of long story: XPM-Files are text and can be posted.
    If the package is uncompressed, you can use any suitable Imageeditor to convert it back, else you can find that if the checksum fails you wont get at the second header (because it is compressed) and so must use the same program (Imagemagick) to convert it back.

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