Create Task distributions A Task distribution is like a normal Perl distribution in structure, but it doesn’t actually provide any code. It lists as pre-requisites all of the modules or distributions that you want to install so you can use a conventiional CPAN tool to install all of the dependencies. A Task is slightly different [...]

The CPAN ecosystem is more than just a way to share your code with other people. It’s also a way to let other people collaborate on the code and to help you release it. In Item 70. Contribute to CPAN, you saw how to upload your work to the Perl Authors Upload Server (PAUSE). There’s [...]

Perl’s distribution system is quite powerful and supported by a variety of tools that can make life easier for you. Most people tend to think that “distributions” are synonymous with modules, but that’s only one of the uses for distributions. In Item 91: Write Scripts as Modules, we talk about the creating programs as “modulinos”, [...]