APP Distribution via CPAN

[Mario Kemper <mario kemper googlemail com>]

Am Montag, den 29.12.2008, 16:26 +0100 schrieb Emmanuel Rodriguez:
> You should think of a way for distributing your application. I strongly 
> suggest that you package your application as a standard CPAN module and 
> make it available there as well. This way you will provide the users 
> with a simple way for installing your application. CPAN is not only for 
> modules; you can add there applications too. You might need to change 
> your package names in order to coexists with the other CPAN packages, 
> although using a dedicated prefix should be enough. Even if you don't 
> want to distribute your application through CPAN, you should at least 
> package it as if it belong to CPAN.
> 
> I've read in your README and noticed that you want your application to 
> work in Debian Etch. This is one more reason for packaging your 
> application through CPAN. Doing so you will make it easier for us Debian 
> and Ubuntu users to package your application as a deb package (take a 
> look at the debian tool dh-make-perl it can do this automatically and 
> without too much hassle).

While reading the mailing list I've just stumbled across this answer by
Emmanuel Rodriguez. 

I am really interested in distributing my app via CPAN as well
( currently i am doing the packaging for supported linux distributions
on my own - too much work ;-) ).
Are there any good tutorials how to do this and what tools to use? I am
familiar with packaging CPAN modules for debian based linux
distributions and i am aware of the benefits.

How do i prepare my app for CPAN? Just like any other Module? Where are
the differences?

I can image the dependency handling of CPAN based modules but how are
any needed C Libs handled by this? Package names differ between most
linux distributions...How are these dependencies resolved?

Thanks for any help.

Greetings
Mario