On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:42 AM, Eden Cardim <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> What I've done before is to move root and other directories into share
> and use the ShareDir plugin. You will need to adjust $c->path_to to
> point to the share dir appropriately, I've been planning to submit a
> patch for this, but haven't found the time.
>
So you are saying move root to share/root and let everything in root get
managed like a share directory?
$c->path_to uses $c->config->{home} as its base. So, it's really
$c->config->{home} that would need to be changed, right?
$c->config->{root} is based of $c->config->{home}, too. Which means
everything in the app's home directory would need to move, too -- like
config.yml (or whatever you use) and any other files or directories that
were placed there.
File::ShareDIr also acts a bit differently than how the current home and
root work.
For example, "prove -vl t/test.t" and "prove -vb t/test.t" (lib vs. blib)
currently will both use the same home (and therefore root). Since -b uses
blib/lib then Catalyst probably should also use blib/lib/<App>/root to be
consistent, right?
File::ShareDire might help that, though.
File::ShareDir expects an auto directory -- so "prove -vl" won't work
(because File::ShareDir expectes to find lib/auto which likely doesn't
exist in the source).
"prove -vb" works because File::ShareDir looks for blib/lib/auto/<App>, and
things in "share"get copied then when running "make".
I tend to use prove -vl quite often, so that's a problem when also using
File::ShareDir. (Maybe there's a solution I'm not aware of).
I like the idea of using share for root -- just because it uses the
Makefile to copy files (when needed) instead of Module::Install::Catalyst's
method of copying all files every time when running Makefile.PL. I've got
over 5500 files in my root.
Maybe all that's needed is Catalyst::Util's home function to figure out if
running out of lib or from an installed location (prove -l vs. prove -b)
so it can use the right "root" using existing methods or via File::ShareDir.
Still, not sure I'd want to move the app configuration out of the app home.
--
Bill Moseley
[email protected]
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