On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Jerome Quelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-25 09:40]: > > > 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. > > Do they need to be physical files or do you just need the data to > tag along somewhere? If you just need the data the, you could > have a helper script that takes the files in the source tree and > sticks them at the bottom of your main module after __DATA__, or > in a My::App::Data module after __DATA__, or as string constants, > possibly uuencoded (cf. `perldoc pack`), etc. > > Regards, > -- > Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/> >
I just wanted to ask the same question for a Gtk2 application I am writing. It has an xml file generated by Glade and currently during perl Makefile.PL I generate a .pm module from the xml file with a single function that returns the content of the xml file. It works, but I think including the content of these extra files in .pm files is not the right direction. I think the Perl community should come up with some more-or-less standard solution supported by Module::Build and MakeMaker that also plays well with the downstream distributors. Maybe there should be an extra/ directory defined by perl where each module can have its own directory to put its extra files to. regards Gabor -- Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/
