On 31 Jul 2007, at 12:19, David Cantrell wrote:
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.
That's something of a special case, no? As you say there's a shell
script to download the data anyway - so no need to distribute it.
--
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net
