Hi Fellow monks,

I need to release a module that will make use of binary data, ( a dump of a Text::Scan dictionary to be precise ).

I'm wondering what's the best way to package data files with a CPAN module. Data files being anything, from images to heavy pre computed data.

A great thing would be to be able to do that:

• In the distrib, put files into a 'data' directory.
• In Makefile.PL , give a name to each of those resources. Like

   'DATA' => {
                 'data1' => 'data/myfile1.bin' ,
                 ...
               }
  [download]

• In the module it self,

   use Data::Resource ; # I don't know if that module exists.
   my $binData = Data::Resource->getResource('data1');
  [download]

I don't know if that kind of mecanism could be implemented or it exists already.

Thanks for your thoughts and help.

Jerome

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