Hello Ofer, Motivate us!
Tell the list why we should look at it. What does it do? How does it solve a problem that is not already solved, or solves it better? I get the sense from the brief comment you made about IO:: that it has to do with some mechanism for implementing parallel IO? Pasting the POD is often a good way to do this. Lincoln On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 16:28 -0800, Ofer Nave wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I just subscribed to this list, I just recently received my PAUSE > account, and I just finished writing/documenting/testing the first perl > module that I've written for CPAN. I'd like to know what is considered > a good set of practices for new modules with regards to: > > 1) naming > 2) requesting feedback on design/implementation > 3) announcing the module > 4) informing authors of similar modules > > In this case, the I've already named the module Parallel::Simple, but I > imagine things would be trickier if I want to call it IO:: something or > create a new top-level namespace. > > Here's the module, if anyone is interested: > > http://ofernave.com/pm/ > > I've already sent copies to my local perl mongers group and posted it on > comp.lang.perl.modules, and I've gotten a little bit of feedback on it. > I'm comfortable with the design as it stands right now, and only need > write some formal tests before it will be ready for its first upload. > > -ofer >
