Release instructions for dual-life Search::Dict 1. Check out a tag/commit corresponding to the release point. This should generally be a Perl release (dev or stable). Make sure your working tree is clear of extraneous files. E.g. $ git checkout v5.15.8 $ git clean -dxf 2. Rsync the Search-Dict directory to a temporary directory for release. E.g. $ rsync -av --delete dist/Search-Dict /tmp 3. Change to the temp directory $ cd /tmp/Search-Dict 4. Look at the Changes file. If it was not kept up to date in blead, take a minute to feel sad, then update it. Remember to copy the changes back to blead later. 5. Configure and then make a MANIFEST $ perl Makefile.PL $ make manifest 6. Build a release directory and examine its contents, paying particular attention to the MANIFEST and the META files $ make distdir 7. Test the release directory $ make disttest 8. If all looks good, create a tarball and upload it to CPAN (maybe install CPAN::Uploader or an equivalent tool) $ make dist $ cpan_upload Search-Dict-X.YYYZZZ.tar.gz 9. Update Porting/ in the Perl repo with the new tarball name for Search-Dict. 10. If you updated Changes, copy that back to blead now 11. Commit any changes to blead (or submit it as a patch if you don't have a commit bit)