I've never been particularly keen on a lot of directories in the lib/ directory of my distributions. I know things like h2xs and other module tools want you to think that's a good idea, but I've found it much easier to just put everything in a flat directory. 

lib/Module.pm
lib/Helper.pm

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I can easily grep the sources and do other multi-file sorts of things, but more importantly for me, I get to see all of the files in one place. Other people have their preferences. If you do everything right, no one is ever going to know: they'll install the module and get rid of the distribution and be none the wiser. :)

I can install them wherever I like by telling MakeMaker where to put them. My Test::Data breaks out the functions into separate modules, although you get to them through Data.pm. You can use whatever you like for the keys and values of the PM argument to WriteMakefile(). 

WriteMakefile( #...
'PM' => {
    'lib/Data.pm'     => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Data.pm',
    'lib/Scalar.pm'   => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Data/Scalar.pm',
    'lib/Array.pm'    => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Data/Array.pm',
    'lib/Hash.pm'     => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Data/Hash.pm',
    'lib/Function.pm' => '$(INST_LIBDIR)/Data/Function.pm',
    },
#...
);

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Beyond that, it doesn't really matter.

--
brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

In reply to Re: Separate files for CPAN dist by brian_d_foy
in thread Separate files for CPAN dist by jacques

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