SoPW would certainly have gotten this post more notice! I was influenced by the stuff in the header of Meditations about "sounding board" and "RFC", and I'm too lazy to try to move it now.

I use GP as a standard abbreviation for general purpose. The general purpose Perl library is typically headed at /usr/local/lib/perl5 on unix systems.

People on the mod_perl mailing list have talked me into letting the module and accompanying database-building script go into the GP perl library and standard 'script' or 'bin' location, respectively.

The install process will (quietly) run said accompanying script. It builds a database that maps .htm(l) filenames to the number of .jpg files called out by each. Module::Build plus the CPAN config have good features for various kinds of files, but they don't include a place for data files.

The inclusion of Apache::Test will probably let the Build process know the location of Apache. Probably it could be set up to make (if necessary) a 'var' subdirectory in the Apache directory, and put the database there. Is that better than asking the user where to put it?

That seems like a good thing to do, since the info in the DB is based on the sibling 'htdocs' directory. Actually putting the DB in htdocs doesn't appeal to me.

Thanks for your interest,
cmac

In reply to Re^2: RFC: Apache2::CloseKeepAlive by cmac
in thread RFC: Apache2::CloseKeepAlive by cmac

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