[Wellington-pm] Roundup of Monday night's meeting

[Peter Love]

I new I'd used FindBin before -- but couldn't remember its name -- so in 
the updated version I sent earlier today I used:
   $slidedir = File::Basename::dirname($0);

which I think is okay.

I think the File::Spec isn't needed for unix and windows, but probably 
for Mac (and what else?)?


> FYI - as far as the hard-coded pathname goes, there's a common Perl
> idiom for dealing with paths relative to the location of the script. 
> One approach is to extract the path out of $0, or __FILE__, but a
> cleaner approach is to use the core module FindBin:
> 
>   use FindBin qw($Bin);
>   my $slidedir = $Bin;
> 
> I often use it for adding a lib directory to @INC:
> 
>   use FindBin qw($Bin);
>   use lib "$Bin/lib";
> 
> or more portably:
> 
>   use FindBin qw($Bin);
>   use File::Spec;
>   use lib File::Spec->catfile($Bin, 'lib');