Re: CPAN pause turnaround time

Also sprach Dominique Dumont:

> "Tassilo v. Parseval" <tassilo.von.parseval@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> By and large I stopped worrying about registering modules. It serves
>> little purpose.
>
> It depends on what you want. If you just want to upload your module,
> no registration is required.
>
> But if you want more people to use your module, the registration
> process will help to:
> - get a meaningful module name (so people won't skip your module
> because its name does not ring a bell)
> - use a name that will be consistent with other modules in the same
> category (so people will consider your module when looking for a
> solution for their problem)
> - avoid future name clash by avoiding ambiguous names

All of the above are generic rules for finding a name for a module. They
remain valid if no registration is intended.

> A registered module will be visible through the browsing facility of
> search.cpan.org. A non registered module will be visible only through
> its distribution and the search engine.

Which is what I suppose people most often use. I don't think I ever
browsed by category when a search didn't turn up anything suitable.

Tassilo
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