5.3. Packaging

The program is packaged using the usual Perl method of a compressed archive containing the program itself, a Makefile, any manual pages required, and a copyright notice. Once the user extracts the archive they will need to run the "make" command in the directory containing the Makefile to build the project, and then "make install" to install the program and it's documentation on the local system. Should the user want to remove the program they can do so by simply running "make clean" in the same directory.

Originally (until version 0.1-3) the program was packaged as a Debian .deb package, but this form of packaging was abandoned in favour of the more traditional method above as it meant only maintaining a single package as opposed to one for each of the various linux distribution bases (Debian, Red Hat, OpenSuse, Gentoo, etc.), along with one for Windows and Mac.

However the packaging is due to change again as CPAN will be hosting the source for this script in their scripts directory, which will enable users to download, configure, and install the script in a single command through CPAN.