Re: CPAN pause turnaround time

Also sprach Rohan R. Almeida:

> Tassilo v. Parseval wrote:
>>
>> It might be anything, even indefinite. My experience is that requests
>> for namespace registrations frequently get dropped. I think this is
>> because there are not so many people who could carry out these
>> registrations and they are most probably busy doing other things as
>> well.
>>
>> By and large I stopped worrying about registering modules. It serves
>> little purpose.
>>
>
> Thanks. Does this mean its ok to go ahead and code my module and
> upload it to my CPAN space?

Yes, by all means. The only thing that should be taken into account on
the first release of a new module is the namespace you choose. If
unsure, discussing it here is a good idea.

> I do have a CPAN directory, but no modules yet. This is my first
> time :-)

There's nothing to worry about. For a first-time submission your focus
should additionally be on making a module and tarball that adheres to
the CPAN standards. This is very easy with tools such as 'h2xs' or any
of the other module-skeleton creators that exist out there.

Tassilo
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