Thanks for your help and ideas.

An excerpt out of my MANIFEST with the associated target directories would look kind of this:

bin/mybin               =>  /usr/local/bin
helper/foo_handler.pl   =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/client/bin
helper/bar_handler.pl   =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/client/bin
helper/baz_handler.pl   =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/client/bin
conf/standard.ini       =>  /var/opt/mymod/scan_repo
conf/foo.ini            =>  /var/opt/mymod/scan_repo
conf/bar.ini            =>  /var/opt/mymod/scan_repo
conf/mybin.conf         =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/client/mybin.conf
# or maybe with another directory
# cf/mybin.conf         =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/client/mybin.conf
lib/My/Module.pm        =>  /usr/local/share/mymod/lib

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In my case I think abusing INSTALLSCRIPT and INSTALLBIN would do if I only had my 'mybin' and the helper scripts, but as you see I have to handle also the different config and ini-files with different locations.

So I think I get back to the PL_FILES strategy you suggested. I think that should be the most successful one.

I also thought about the File::ShareDir and File::ShareDir::Install modules, such as the anonymous monk mentioned, but there's the drawback that this is only for read only data and that scares me a little bit off this.

So thank you very much, I'll try it out :-)

In reply to Re^2: Module::Build's adding new filetypes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker by vicdan
in thread Module::Build's adding new filetypes in ExtUtils::MakeMaker by vicdan

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