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

[Ken Y. C. <kc...@lo...>]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Dave Rolsky wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:50:48 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Dave Rolsky <au...@ur...>
> To: mod...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Module-build-general] Warning on shebang/extending M::B
>
> 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.

Ah, thanks for that pointer.  I glossed over that method.

Any chance to get "copy_if_modified" to also take a "from_dir"
argument and have it glob everything in there (perhaps recursively
grabbing sub-dirs)?

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

Another great tip.  Thanks!

ky