Re^3: Data files in Perl module distributions?

[zengargoyle]

Alien::Tidyp

/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/bin/tidyp
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/include/tidyp
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/include/tidyp/buffio.h
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/include/tidyp/platform.h
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/include/tidyp/tidyp.h
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/include/tidyp/tidypenum.h
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/lib/libtidyp.a
/var/local/perl/5.14.2/lib/site_perl/5.14.2/auto/share/dist/Alien-Tidy
+p/v1.4.7/lib/libtidyp.la

Alien::Base - Still beta-ish but I filed an issue and got a sorta "meh, not in scope of project" response. I've run into the problem somewhere else but I forget where (probably just installed the needed external dependency).

I guess I'm just weird for keeping 4 architectures in the same Perl tree, and I might try to fork and fix sometime in the future. Warning applies for anything that stores a binary or library or binary data (endianness) using the File::ShareDir pattern.

Just bringing it up so people think about what they put where.

[Anonymous Monk]

You must report this at https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Alien-Tidyp. The maintainers will not see it here.

[Anonymous Monk]

I see the issue, but that is not exactly a ShareDir proble. ShareDir gets you to the base directory, after that, its all up to you. Its definitely in Alien::Base domain.

I think Alien::wxWidgets handles it in a reasonable way, though it necessitates Wx::Perl::Packager, you can't get by with File::ShareDir::PAR

'package' => 'Alien::wxWidgets::Config::msw_2_9_0_uni_gcc_3_4',
'package' => 'Alien::wxWidgets::Config::msw_2_8_10_uni_gcc_3_4',
'package' => 'Alien::wxWidgets::Config::msw_2_8_12_uni_gcc_3_4',
C:\perl\site\5.14.1\lib\Alien\wxWidgets
|-- Config
|   `-- msw_2_8_12_uni_gcc_3_4.pm
|-- Utility.pm
`-- msw_2_8_12_uni_gcc_3_4
    |-- include
    |   `-- wx
*SNIP*
    |       `-- zstream.h
    `-- lib
        |-- build.cfg
        |-- libwxbase28u.a
*SNIP*
        `-- wxmsw28u_xrc_gcc_custom.dll

29 directories, 801 files

Does it need to be a module? NO