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Plot of Shame (Score:3, Informative)
to my chagrin i must admit to being the author of this module :)
extenuating circumstances; i was in a rush to catch the last train home after a hacksesh, and wanted to upload SVG::Plot to slot in with kake's [perl.org] dependencies (cf CGI::Wiki [cpan.org] and OpenGuides).
it being a while since the last (and first) time i put a module on CPAN, i'm not overfamiliar with h2xs or make dist and make tar-dist.
to my further chagrin this morning, i realised i'd not only put the module in the wrong namespace, but hadn't actually included the code. Kake showed me the way and the light, for which i am deeply grateful; there've been two more point releases since then.
An edge case quite this inane and dubious is pretty difficult to account for in any sensible automated module-checking, but perhaps my slightly intoxicated stupidity has provided some food for thought ;) i've never met a CPAN packaging HOWTO; a 'do you really want to do this' function might be useful on PAUSE ... (perhaps with an option for "don't let me upload this if it's after N o'clock at night in my personal timezone...")
i hope this has caused more amusement than it has consternation and despair, anyway.
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Re:Plot of Shame (Score:2, Informative)
It's not a big deal really. Since I am very much afraid of upload-mistakes myself I double- and triple-check the tarballs that leave my computer. And not even that can prevent some silly but unpleasant errors. My favourite one is forgetting to increase
$VERSION.Auto-increasing $VERSION (Score:1)
Mine too. But if you're using some sort of revision control system, you can simply do something like
which it's done in a lot of modules or
as suggested by ExtUtils::MakeMaker.