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The intent of File::ShareDir is to provide a companion to
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Class::Inspector and File::HomeDir, modules that take a process that is
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well-known by advanced Perl developers but gets a little tricky, and
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make it more available to the larger Perl community.
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Quite often you want or need your Perl module (CPAN or otherwise) to
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have access to a large amount of read-only data that is stored on the
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file-system at run-time.
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On a linux-like system, this would be in a place such as /usr/share,
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however Perl runs on a wide variety of different systems, and so the use
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of any one location is unreliable.
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Perl provides a little-known method for doing this, but almost nobody is
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aware that it exists. As a result, module authors often go through some
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very strange ways to make the data available to their code.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-ShareDir/
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