Re: [Module-build-general] Warning on shebang/extending M::B

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Ken Y. Clark wrote:

> practices when it comes to what I want to do.  Specifically, I want to
> copy HTML templates, an HTML stylesheet, and a configuration file to
> the directories the user has set (or the defaults I have in my
> script).  Then I just want to let M::B do it's thing.  Something like:
>
>     sub ACTION_install {
>         my $self = shift;
>         copy_files('templates', $template_dir);
>         copy_files('conf/cmap.conf', $conf_dir);
>         copy_files('conf/cmap.css', $ss_dir);
>         $self->SUPER::ACTION_install;
>     }
>
> Does that look reasonable?  Any suggestions on the best way to write
> the "copy_files" part?

Check out the 'copy_if_modified' method.  That's what it is there for.

But use File::Spec in to get 'conf/cmap.conf' for portability!.


-dave

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