Esteemed Monks,

I'm writing a Perl module that reads values from 3 TXT files (in total those files have about 5K lines). These files are not maintained by me, they are on public domain AND sometimes are updated but preserving the structure.

My question is: how should I include those 3 files in my module?

  1. Directly (copy&paste) into the Module as hashtables?
  2. As external files, included in the package? (in this case, please, enlighten me on doing this)
  3. Let the programmer download the files and copy them into the programm's folder.

In cases 1 and 2 each time those files are updated I'll have to update the Module. In the later case the programmer is responsible for updating the sources (those 3 files).

What would be your choice?

Miguel

In reply to Module and external files by Miguel

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