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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> wrote: > "Gabor Szabo" <szabgab@gmail.com> writes: > >> I have arived to the point in Padre that I started to add a toolbar >> to the main frame. Base on the example in the Demo I use the >> external .xpm files. All works well in my development environment as >> I know where the files are relative to the executable. > >> I wonder how should I include these files in the CPAN distribution, > > Ah! Welcome to the wonderful world of software distribution... > > Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted standards to solve this. > Fortunately, there is more than one way to do it. For example: > > - put the data in a .pm, and load it. > - put the data in a subdirectory below your modules, and use @INC to > find it. > - File::HomeDir and File::ShareDir are good alternatives, although > they are not widely supported yet. > > I use the 2nd approach in one of my major Perl apps, EekBoek. > > When installing via a package manager, I usually put the files in the > location according to the system conventions. E.g., on Fedora, all > modules and files will be placed in /usr/share/MyPackage instead of > clobbering /usr/lib/perl5. In App::Wack I do the first but I don't think that's a good solution. On the recommendation of AdamK as well, I went with File::ShareDir 1.00 in Padre 0.03_01. We'll see how it works out and then we should get some changes in the core so from later versions of perl there will be some standard solution. > > HTH, > Johan > > PS: Congrats with your Camel Award! thanks GaborThread Previous