README
1
2 cpan-upload
3 v2.2
4
5This is a script for uploading one or more distributions to CPAN using PAUSE,
6the Perl Authors Upload SErver. For example, to upload a previous version of
7this script's distribution, I ran:
8
9 % cpan-upload -verbose cpan-upload-1.06.tar.gz
10
11The upload happens in two steps:
12
13 * first we ftp the file(s) to the upload ftp site
14 * we POST a message to the PAUSE web site to register the uploads
15
16Before using the script you must register with PAUSE to get a username
17and password. See the following for more details:
18
19 http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html
20
21To install this script, you should just have to run the following:
22
23 % perl Makefile.PL
24 % make install
25
26The script is fully documented using pod. Once installed you should get
27a man page. It also supports two informational switches:
28
29 -help display a short help message describing command-line options
30 -doc display the complete pod documentation for cpan-upload
31
32The script requires several modules from CPAN. You can get the latest
33version via the CPAN multiplexor at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/
34
35 What Where
36
37 AppConfig::Std $CPAN/authors/id/NEILB/AppConfig-Std-<version>.tar.gz
38 AppConfig $CPAN/authors/id/ABW/
39 Pod::Usage In the PodParser distribition
40 Net::FTP in the libnet distribution
41 LWP $CPAN/modules/by-module/LWP/
42 Term::ReadKey $CPAN/modules/by-module/Term/
43
44Thanks to Andreas for his help in getting this to talk nicely to PAUSE.
45
46I'd be happy to hear of any suggestions for improving this script.
47
48Neil Bowers <neil@bowers.com>
49--
50$Id: README,v 2.2 2002/07/02 21:44:51 neilb Exp $
51