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.

GrandFather hangs his head in shame and admits that he still hasn't quite got enough rough edges off that particular project to feel he can post it, but will use this as a prompt to get his a into g.

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Perl is Huffman encoded by design.

Thanks for bringing CPAN up in this discussion because I have never been too clear if CPAN is only for libs/modules, or for complete applications.

For example, this little TkMailer app that I recently posted. I don't plan to maintain it but I think it might help other people. Is this really a candidate for CPAN? If so, I have a few questions:

• Where can I get a newbie how-to on packaging it for CPAN?
• How does one know how to clasify it on CPAN?
• Who defines name spaces in CPAN? Is there a guide for this?

Personally, my preferred method would be to:

1. Refactor it to no longer be standalone, but an API that others could use and embed into their own Tk applications.
2. Modify the script so that it used the API to create the TkMailer window to send whatever you already do.
3. Put this whole package on CPAN.
You can ship scripts with your modules on CPAN. The focus on the modules, however, is a focus that allows for code-reuse in other applications, which is one of the strengths of perl and CPAN, IMO.

How to on packaging: check ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build - I think they both talk about how to use them to package your modules.

How to classify: you can ask here. I've seen that done a few times. To give you a headstart, if you do as I suggested above, I'd classify it under "User Interfaces" since it'll be tied closer to Tk than to SMTP.

Who defines - we all do, but if you check PAUSE, they have a section on this.

Hope that helps. It's actually a lot less daunting than it looks. Especially the second time. ;-)