A. Pagaltzis wrote:
Disagree. The tarball should contain the full source necessary to recreate everything the author did. Stuff that’s not relevant to end-user installation of the module should simply be kept out of the way.
I ever-so-respectfully disagree. I am not going to include the original data that I downloaded from the UK telecoms regulator for a particular build of Number::Phone::UK::Data (although I do include a shell script that downloads the current version of that data), nor the list of exchanges for Number::Phone::UK::DetailedLocations.
Bear in mind that these two modules are already 2.5MB and 7.5MB *compressed*, 18 and 36MB uncompressed.
-- David Cantrell