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Chapter 15. Contributing to CPAN

Besides allowing others in your organization receive the benefits of these wonderful modules and distributions you've created, you may wish to contribute to the Perl community at large. The mechanism for sharing your work is called the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, or CPAN for short.



    		Chapter 1. Introduction
    		Chapter 2. Building Larger Programs
    		Chapter 3. Introduction to References
    		Chapter 4. References and Scoping
    		Chapter 5. Manipulating Complex Data Structures
    		Chapter 6. Subroutine References
    		Chapter 7. Practical Reference Tricks
    		Chapter 8. Introduction to Objects
    		Chapter 9. Objects with Data
    		Chapter 10. Object Destruction
    		Chapter 11. Some Advanced Object Topics
    		Chapter 12. Using Modules
    		Chapter 13. Writing a Distribution
    		Chapter 14. Essential Testing
    		Chapter 15. Contributing to CPAN
    		15.1 The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
    		15.2 Getting Prepared
    		15.3 Preparing Your Distribution
    		15.4 Uploading Your Distribution
    		15.5 Announcing the Module
    		15.6 Testing on Multiple Platforms
    		15.7 Consider Writing an Article or Giving a Talk
    		15.8 Exercise
    		Appendix A. Answers to Exercises