cpan-upload
v2.2
This is a script for uploading one or more distributions to CPAN using PAUSE,
the Perl Authors Upload SErver. For example, to upload a previous version of
this script's distribution, I ran:
% cpan-upload -verbose cpan-upload-1.06.tar.gz
The upload happens in two steps:
* first we ftp the file(s) to the upload ftp site
* we POST a message to the PAUSE web site to register the uploads
Before using the script you must register with PAUSE to get a username
and password. See the following for more details:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html
To install this script, you should just have to run the following:
% perl Makefile.PL
% make install
The script is fully documented using pod. Once installed you should get
a man page. It also supports two informational switches:
-help display a short help message describing command-line options
-doc display the complete pod documentation for cpan-upload
The script requires several modules from CPAN. You can get the latest
version via the CPAN multiplexor at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/
What Where
AppConfig::Std $CPAN/authors/id/NEILB/AppConfig-Std-<version>.tar.gz
AppConfig $CPAN/authors/id/ABW/
Pod::Usage In the PodParser distribition
Net::FTP in the libnet distribution
LWP $CPAN/modules/by-module/LWP/
Term::ReadKey $CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/
Thanks to Andreas for his help in getting this to talk nicely to PAUSE.
I'd be happy to hear of any suggestions for improving this script.
Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>
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$Id: README,v 2.2 2002/07/02 21:44:51 neilb Exp $