.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.01 (Pod::Simple 3.43) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "Module::Install::Share 3pm" .TH Module::Install::Share 3pm 2024-03-06 "perl v5.38.2" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME Module::Install::Share \- Install non\-code files for use during run\-time .SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 2 \& # Put everything inside ./share/ into the distribution \*(Aqauto\*(Aq path \& install_share \*(Aqshare\*(Aq; \& \& # Same thing as above using the default directory name \& install_share; .Ve .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" As well as Perl modules and Perl binary applications, some distributions need to install read-only data files to a location on the file system for use at run-time. .PP XML Schemas, YAML data files, and SQLite databases are examples of the sort of things distributions might typically need to have available after installation. .PP \&\f(CW\*(C`Module::Install::Share\*(C'\fR is a Module::Install extension that provides commands to allow these files to be installed to the applicable location on disk. .PP To locate the files after installation so they can be used inside your module, see this extension's companion module File::ShareDir. .SH "TO DO" .IX Header "TO DO" Currently \f(CW\*(C`install_share\*(C'\fR installs not only the files you want, but if called by the author will also copy \fI.svn\fR and other source-control directories, and other junk. .PP Enhance this to copy only files under \fIshare\fR that are in the \&\fIMANIFEST\fR, or possibly those not in \fIMANIFEST.SKIP\fR. .SH AUTHORS .IX Header "AUTHORS" Audrey Tang .PP Adam Kennedy .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" Module::Install, File::ShareDir .SH COPYRIGHT .IX Header "COPYRIGHT" Copyright 2006 Audrey Tang, Adam Kennedy. .PP This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. .PP See