On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Ian Malpass wrote:
I upload a tar of all five modules, each version 0.01, and call it WWW-CIA-0.01.tar.gz
I modify, say, WWW::CIA::Parser and call it version 0.02.
Do I create a new tarball called WWW-CIA-0.02.tar.gz, including the
updated module, and upload that, or do I just upload the modified module
somehow?
Upload the lot. It's only 10Kb. We are no longer running at 14.4; management overhead costs more than bandwidth.
Yes - upload the lot. And update the module's distribution version number too (ie: VERSION, or whatever file VERSION_FROM points to in Makefile.PL). You must change the version number of your distribution on each upload to CPAN (or it won't be accepted).
Here's 2 ways you can keep track of versions in a project:
(1) a single version number across all files:
package WWW::CIA;
our $VERSION = 0.02;
package WWW::CIA::Parser;
our $VERSION = 0.02;
...(2) a distribution version, different version in each module:
package WWW::CIA;
our $VERSION = 0.02;
package WWW::CIA::Parser;
our $VERSION = 0.11;I prefer (2) because I can use the CVS revision number in each file:
our $VERSION = (split(/ /, '$Revision: 1.6 $'))[1];Other things you should do:
* set VERSION_FROM and ABSTRACT_FROM => 'lib/WWW/CIA.pm' in Makefile.PL
* create a MANIFEST with 'make manifest'
* read http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_contribute_modules
Hope this helps, -Steve
