Re: PAR vs MIME::Types

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Ron W <[email protected]> wrote:

> If I were going to make a change to PAR::Packer, I would be inclined to
> provide the packaged application with $ENV{PP_PERL_MIME_TYPE_DB} set to the
> packaged location of types.db so that the application could then decide
> where to tell the module to look for the file.


Sorry, that approach isn't possible with the current infrastructure in
PAR::Packer (whereas patching
works now by adding two lines of code to the PatchContent filter). But
basically bothhave the same flaw:
they depend on knowledge about the inner workings of MIME::Types.

Cheers, Roderich