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README files (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603)

One thing that screwed me up in some of my first releases to CPAN was this note from the PAUSE site [cpan.org]
Do not upload the READMEs that are integrated in your distribution files. PAUSE is designed to take care of unwrappig your file with tar or zip, registering all the modules it finds in there, and placing the readme file (i.e. a file with the name README in the top level directory of your package) into your directory. PAUSE will change the name of the file to package-name.readme. It should do so within a few
- Re:README files (Score:1)
  
  by koschei (147) <useperl@dellah.org> on 2002.07.09 23:43 (#10345) Homepage Journal
  
  Are you sure? It's always correctly extracted mine. Follow this link [eh.org] for a link to my section of CPAN.
  
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  - Re:README files (Score:2)
    
    by djberg96 (2603)
    
    Hmmm...upon further review, I may have misunderstood what this paragraph means. Where's the "delete comment" option?

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