<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 9, 2013, at 11:57 PM, David Oswald wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">The slides for this evening's presentation on the "nuts and bolts" of<br>a basic CPAN distribution are on slideshare at:</span></blockquote></div><br><div>Great deck! Sorry I couldn't be there. I definitely think it is worth creating one CPAN distribution by hand, before jumping to tools like Dist::Zilla. Until you've made and managed all those files by yourself, the workflow for D::Z may not seem obvious. But once you've done a couple dists the old fashioned way, you'll definitely want to (and really enjoy) using D::Z.</div><div><br></div><div>IMHO, registering modules is totally unnecessary. If you're the first to release a module with a given name, then it is yours -- even if you never register it. The only folks that still seem to register modules are those who control the registry.</div><div><br></div><div>Also IMHO, people fuss over namespaces way too much. If your module fits nicely into an existing namespace, then great. If not, then don't torture yourself over creating a new one. Call it Tarantula or MoonBeam or whatever. Then focus your energy on making sure your code is well organized into meaningful packages <i>within</i> your chosen namespace. If it's good, people will find it no matter what you call it.</div><div><br></div><div>May a thousand distros bloom! <i>-- Ancient Chinese proverb</i></div><div><br></div><div>-Jeff</div></body></html>