Re: question about packaging

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 05:53, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> What is the best way to package glade xml files with my perl script ?
>
> Should I (A) supply them as data files to be installed in */share/myapp/
> , should I (B) put them all in the __DATA__ part of the script or should
> I (C) package them into separate perl modules ? ( option (D) of course
> being 'none of the above' )

personally i would lean towards B just because it would make sure that
the gladexml data was around and you wouldn't have to worry about paths
to it.

> Seems to me that using data files is the clean option, but I don't
> believe the default install scheme for perl apps (useing
> ExtUtils::MakeMaker) has a data dir and I want the app to be portable,
> but with the other two options I'm still stuck with the images so it
> doesn't fix everything. How is this done usually ?

as far as data dirs go in the past i've installed things under
/xxx/share/app_name, but never on anything that was used for real so i
don't know if that's the way to go.

-rm