Re: gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that

[Beatnik]

in reply to gzipped tarballs, CPAN, winzip, and all that

This may sound a bit silly but I use a make dist and one line in Makefile.PL to do that archiving for me.

use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
#yada yada
WriteMakefile(
    'NAME'              => 'Foo::Bar',
    'VERSION_FROM'      => 'Bar.pm', # finds $VERSION
    'PREREQ_PM'         => {}, # e.g., Module::Name => 1.1
    ($] >= 5.005 ?    ## Add these new keywords supported since 5.005
      (ABSTRACT_FROM => 'Bar.pm', # retrieve abstract from module
       AUTHOR     => '') : ()),
    'dist'        => {COMPRESS=>'gzip',SUFFIX=>'gz'},   
);

After a perl Makefile.PL, I just make dist and run to PAUSE to upload the tarball.

HTH

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

[John M. Dlugosz]

I get "unknown command make" from the command prompt. The NMAKE that comes with the Microsoft C++ compiler is so unlike make (they kind of missed the point; it doesn't do forward-chaining logic if I recall) that I don't think it would work. What 'make' do you use on a Windows system?

[jmcnamara]

If you have Windows versions of tar and gzip on your path then "nmake dist" will work with the Makefile.PL file shown by Beatnik.

--
John.