Re: question about packaging

[James Curbo <james teyandei net>]

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' )
>
> 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 ?

This is a hard question I have thought about a lot before; I guess the 
cleanest solution is to have some sort of MakeMaker thing going on that 
will automatically create a directory for you in your system's (assuming 
Unix) datadir location (/usr/share/ on linux)... I like the idea of the 
__DATA__ approach though, especally if you just have one glade file. 
(although there is that multi-data-section module.. can't remember what 
it's called right now though)

autoconf has --prefix and --datadir which would be helpful, but the 
autotools would be overkill for a simple perl app (like my xalbumlist.. 
one script, one glade file)

Note that I am not concerned about Windows either :) however, the 
__DATA__ method would be the most portable in this instance.

James