App::part released to Github
Today, I moved the development place of one of my incredibly simple yet incredibly useful data munging tools from http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=598718 to Github . I hope that by moving it there, it becomes easier for people to submit patches.
I haven't given much thought about putting the program onto CPAN as well. The packaging is already done, but I'm not sure if I want to split out the meat of the program into a module, or maintain two versions, a module-using version and the stand-alone version that I currently have. App::Ack did maintain a monolithic version for a while, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort. There also is a version of this file that reads and produces Excel files, thanks to Spreadsheet::WriteExcel and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. I haven't decided on whether to import that version into this tree, a different branch or what else to do with it.
I'm the Treasurer for the Frankfurt Perlmongers e.V. . I have organized Perl events including 9 German Perl Workshops and one YAPC::Europe.
Whenever you push a project to github without a README, God kills a lolcat.
Now that’s what I call a perverse incentive.
As I don't want to leave all the fun of killing lolcats to God, I've added an (autogenerated) README and README.mk to the repository.
You could use FatPacker to produce a standalone version from a driver script + module. If you were using Dist::Zilla you could even automate it.