Re: Getting a module on CPAN

Hi Mumia

"Mumia W." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is what the CPAN shell says to me about your module:

Module id = GD::3DBarGrapher
DESCRIPTION Professional looking 3D Bar Graphs
CPAN_USERID SWARHURST (S I Warhurst <CENSORED>)
CPAN_VERSION undef
CPAN_FILE Contact Author S I Warhurst <CENSORED>
DSLI_STATUS Rdpf (released,developer,perl,functions)
INST_FILE (not installed)

It sounds like CPAN is aware of the namespace, but it can't associate that
with a tarball. Your tarball seems to have the correct name. I can't see
why your upload isn't recognized (indexed by CPAN).

I was able to "get" your tarball by doing this:

cpan> get SWARHURST/GD-3DBarGrapher-0.9.1.tar.gz

All of the files in your tarball seem to have permissions set to 0700.
That would exclude everyone but the owner from seeing the files. Perhaps
that is what is stopping CPAN's indexing.

It looks like you use Windows. AFAIK, Windows doesn't have a native tar
program. What utility did you use to create the tarball?

Yes, I am on Windows and used the tar utility that comes with cygwin and the
syntax:

tar -cf GD-3DBarGrapher-0.9.1.tar.gz /GD-3DBarGrapher-0.9.1

Just did an ls-l and it does appear that permissions on the folder were
owner only. I chmod'd them to 644 using cygwin and then created the tar
again, so will upload that and request a reindex. Hopefully that will then
work.

PS.
Please provide an e-mail address for people to report problems about your
module.

In the README file in the package it has my email as swarhurst AT cpan.org
which works. One of the testers of 0.9.0 emailed me OK.

Thanks
Ian


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