Jerome Quelin wrote:

> hi there,
>
> i'm writing a tk app that i'm shipping as a cpan dist. this app needs
> some extra resource files (icons, etc) i'd like to know what's the best
> method to ship extra data files in a dist.
>
> where to put them in the dist tar file:
>  - create a data subdir under lib/Foo/Bar (assuming it's dist Foo::Bar).
>    in that case, do they get installed automatically, even if not pm
>    files?
>  - create a data subdir at the top level, and use sthg like this in
>    Makefile.PL:
>     PM => {
>         'data/foo.data'  => '$(INST_LIB)/Foo/Bar/foo.data',
>         ...
>     },
>  - anything else?

You can also define a MY::postamble() for this task:
  » http://use.perl.org/~Maddingue/journal/34682

Of course, Michael Schwern doesn't like such extensions for obvious
reasons ;-)


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