I'd like to access template files during run time. What's a good practice for doing this?

I just learned about File::ShareDir and how it works with the share_dir directive of Module::Build and Module::Install.

This is great, since production code can do something like: 

  use File::ShareDir;
  my $template_file =   File::ShareDir::module_file('Module::Name', 'template/resume.tt')

But this doesn't seem to help me during development and test, where I'm used to accessing things (i.e. modules, scripts) from ../blib without having to install them.

Is there an analog to blib for share_dir so that I can use the same code in dev/test as I do in production?

And beyond the pre- vs. post- question relating to 'Build install', is there a recommended directory structure for where to hang the templates relative to the modules or relative to the distribution? Even lacking a recommendation, could you point me to a distribution that uses TT so that I could study how it does it?

In reply to Dirctory structure for TT2 templates (in test *and* production) by MRWolf

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