I've got into the habit of using File::ShareDir along with the auto directory tree. This is useful for storing any supplementary read-only files such as templates or data files.
  1. Deposit the data files in the corresponding auto directory in the Perl library path. For example reference files for lib/My/Module.pm are placed in directory lib/auto/My/Module.
  2. Use File::ShareDir to locate the file at run-time: 
package My::Module;
use warnings; use strict;

use File::ShareDir;

our $data_path = File::ShareDir::module_file(__PACKAGE__, 'mydata.yaml
+');

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By convention loaders and packagers look for and automatically include resources in auto in the module path. So both will be packaged and installed together.

In reply to Re: Including periodically changing data with modules by snoopy
in thread Including periodically changing data with modules by hangon

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