On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:29:23AM +0000, Smylers wrote: > > Nonetheless I feel it would be worth doing this for anything completely > independent. It may be a little more hassle for you to release a few > separate distros rather than one -- but it would be a lot more hassle > for a potential user who just wants your DateTime or URI module to have > to grab the entire suite. > > More to the point they are unlikely to be noticed as part of a suite, so > your work won't get the attention and usage they deserve, and it's more > likely that somebody else will repeat them (only slightly different, and > incompatibly) elsewhere.
I can second this. When I found Data::FormValidator, it was only distributed as part of a larger framework...I didn't want the larger framework, I just wanted the form validation. This module was not well known at the time. Since Data::FormValidator has been released on it's own, there's been a lot more activity around it. I've also released a project that sounds more like the scale of yours. The "small modules" I've released end up getting hacked on a lot more by others, who returns the improvements to me. So the extra effort to release bits separately has definitely paid off. Mark -- http://mark.stosberg.com/
