Fwd: PAR vs MIME::Types

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Philip Gwyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> To me, all libraries should allow the caller to specify where to find data
> files.


That's a nightmare for admins and packagers...

> In fact File::ShareDir is a much better option then __FILE__ or %INC.

What I would like to see (as in "could I haz a pony?") is a standard
way for tools
like PAR to inspect or intercept loading of data. And then have a every module
converted to use that. But that won't happen, TIMTOWTDI rules.

BTW, it's fine with me if people submit bugs against PAR::Packer for
cases like this.
It  generally takes one line in Module::ScanDeps and perhaps another two in
PAR::Packer to fix this.

> Anyone willing to weigh in on the argument?


Anyway, for MIME::Types this will be solved in the next release of PAR::Packer:
it will patch the packaged MIME::Types to load types.db from its
packaged location.


Cheers, Roderich