"Ken Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Graciliano M. P. wrote: > >> You should compress the data and than append it with __DATA__ or as >> a string >> saved with Base64 to avoid binary errors. > > I think not - then you'd have to decompress it every time you used the > module. Just gzip it and put it on whatever distribution site you > choose (which may or may not be CPAN) and then users will decompress > before installation.
Why not just leave it uncompressed, and let the compression of the whole package into Geo-PostalCode-US-0.1.tar.gz take care of compressing it? Otherwise I'd end up with a gzip file inside of a gzip file---no extra compression, and I have to require an extra module to uncompress it on the client side. -----ScottG.
