How to install INI file cross platform with Makefile.PL?

mrdvt92 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

PerlMonks,

I have a package that uses "profiles" to connect to databases, web services and file systems. A profile is "Production", "Alpha", "Beta" etc... There is a master INI file that maps the profiles to their correct databases and services.

  my $db=MY::Profiles->new->profile("Production")->database; #isa DBIx
+::Array
  my $ws=MY::Profiles->new->profile("Production")->webservice;
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I would like to be able to add this INI file in my distribution so that it is installed by the normal "perl Makefile.PL;make;make install" process so that we can build RPMs and PPMs that have the INI file.

I've done some research and it appears that INI files should be in /etc (sysconfdir) on Linux-like systems and should be in the Windows folder on Windows-like systems. These paths are easy enough to get from Sys::Path->sysconfdir and Win32::GetFolderPath(Win32::CSIDL_WINDOWS). Note: I do not think the INI file should go in c:\Perl\etc (Sys::Path->sysconfdir in Windows) since it is also used by non-Perl applications.

Does anyone know how to get this to work?

In my research, it appears that neither Module::Install nor ExtUtils::MakeMaker support this out of the box but there are 100s of options.

This package Module::Build::SysPath seams to be the closest to what I need but, it puts the Windows INI file in what I consider the "wrong" path in Win32.

Thanks,
Mike

mrdvt92
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Re: How to install INI file cross platform with Makefile.PL? by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Sep 05, 2011 at 00:22 UTC
I tried File::ShareDir::Install and File::ShareDir. File::ShareDir::Install `#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.008008; use strict; use warnings; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; use File::ShareDir::Install; install_share module => 'My::Profiles' => 'profile'; WriteMakefile(); package MY; use File::ShareDir::Install; sub postamble { my $self = shift; my @ret = File::Share::Install::postamble( $self ); return join "\n", @ret; }` [download] To find the files after installation: File::ShareDir `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use File::ShareDir qw(:ALL); dist_dir('My-Profiles');` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: How to install INI file cross platform with Makefile.PL?
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Sep 05, 2011 at 00:22 UTC

File::ShareDir::Install

File::ShareDir

File::ShareDir::Install

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.008008;

use strict;
use warnings;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

use File::ShareDir::Install;
install_share module => 'My::Profiles' => 'profile';

WriteMakefile();

package 
MY;
use File::ShareDir::Install;

sub postamble {
        my $self = shift;
        my @ret = File::Share::Install::postamble( $self );
        return join "\n", @ret;
}
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File::ShareDir

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::ShareDir qw(:ALL);
dist_dir('My-Profiles');
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