On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 22:00 -0400, Jeremy Volkening wrote:
> Is it safe to say that I was wrong to differentiate between packaging a
> standalone app and a reusable module?

>From the Debian standpoint, applications and modules/libraries are
packaged in the same way.

>From the CPAN perspective, it was originally envisaged that modules
would be packaged in a different way to scripts.  However the tools that
grew up around the package format for modules meant that it became the
'winner' and is now used for scripts too.  It turns out that it's easier
to write tests for modules than for scripts so building your application
as a simple wrapper around one or more modules is preferred by many.

Cheers
Grant

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