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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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
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