Where to put generating scripts in a CPAN module?

Asked Jun 23 '13 at 12:16

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I've built a CPAN module skeleton using module-builder, which means that I've got this structure:

Changes
ignore.txt
lib/
Makefile.PL
MANIFEST
README
t/

I've got both lib/My/Module.pm and lib/My/Module/Data.pm. Data.pm contains a hash generated from another script. It takes a couple of minutes to build and doesn't take much space, so I want to ship the complete Data.pm and not let the user build it. On the other hand, I also want to ship the script that builds Data.pm in case anyone would be interested in it.

Where in the module should I put the script that builds Data.pm?

asked Jun 23 '13 at 12:16

Andreas

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I would put it into a `scripts` or `tools` directory. Most users won't need it, so it wouldn't be installed, but it's still there if someone downloads it manually or browses the source online. – amon Jun 23 '13 at 12:19
`etc` sounds appropriate. – ikegami Jun 23 '13 at 15:29
++ for `etc`. I've often used that for scripts, configs, and other files that I want to ship, but don't want installed. – Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer Jun 27 '13 at 17:38

Where to put generating scripts in a CPAN module?

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