Re: Sharedir for Module::Build

File::ShareDir support is something I'd like to add to the Module::Build
core. I just haven't had time to work on it.

I suspect it requires:

* adding a "share_dir" property
* adding an ACTION_share_dir routine (that does nothing if sharedir is
undef) to copy things to the right spots in blib
* making ACTION_build call share_dir

I'm probably oversimplifying, but if you want to work on a patch, I'm
willing to give advice along the way and integrate the patch when it's done.


David

On Aug 8, 2009 9:13 AM, "Thomas Klausner" <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi!

So, to put my SDL-base Spaceinvaders game [0] on CPAN I need to install some
stuff (images) alongside my dist. Previously I used several different
homegrown techniques for this, which work. But I'd rather use the sort
of common File::ShareDir instead of rolling my own. Unfortunatly,
Module::Build does not support actually installing stuff that
File::ShareDir can later find out of the box.

I could now (again) fuzz around add_build_element, install_path etc, but
I'd rather put all of this into a reusable module, i.e. something like
File::Share::Install or Module::Install::Share, only for Module::Build.

First question: Does this exist already? Or is there some easy way using
Module::Build to say "take all the stuff in this dir and install it to
where File::ShareDir would look for it"?

Second question: Instead of writing a subclass of Module::Build and put
that on CPAN I'd rather implement this as a mixin (i.e. a distribution
that exports some methods that then can be used by a standard
Module::Build instance). What do you think about that?

For the API, I'd like to have something like

  $builder->install_share(@list_of_dirs);

This would go through all the dirs, add the files in these dirs to the
configuration ('share_files'), add a correct install_path, call
add_build_elements, maybe add those files to no_index, ..

Any more feedback/ideas?


0: http://github.com/domm/Game-PerlInvaders

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