Module::Install::Admin - Author-side manager for Module::Install
In a Module::Install extension module:
sub extension_method { my $self = shift; $self->admin->some_method(@args); }
As an one-liner:
% perl -MModule::Install::Admin -e'&some_method(@args);'
The two snippets above are really shorthands for
$some_obj->some_method(@args)
where $some_obj is the singleton object of a class under the Module::Install::Admin::* namespace that provides the method some_method. See "METHODS" for a list of built-in methods.
$some_obj
Module::Install::Admin::*
some_method
This module implements the internal mechanism for initializing, including and managing extensions, and should only be of interest to extension developers; it is never included under a distribution's inc/ directory, nor are any of the Module::Install::Admin::* extensions.
For normal usage of Module::Install, please see Module::Install and Module::Install-Cookbook instead.
When someone runs a Makefile.PL that has use inc::Module::Install, and there is no inc/ in the current directory, Module::Install will load this module bootstrap itself, through the steps below:
use inc::Module::Install
First, Module/Install.pm is POD-stripped and copied from @INC to inc/. This should only happen on the author's side, never on the end-user side.
@INC
Reload inc/Module/Install.pm if the current file is somewhere else. This ensures that the included version of inc/Module/Install.pm is always preferred over the installed version.
Look at inc/Module/Install/*.pm and load all of them.
Set up a main::AUTOLOAD function to delegate missing function calls to Module::Install::Admin::load -- again, this should only happen at the author's side.
main::AUTOLOAD
Module::Install::Admin::load
Provide a Module::Install::purge_self function for removing included files under inc/.
Module::Install::purge_self
Module::Install
Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
Copyright 2003, 2004 by Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
To install Module::Install, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Module::Install
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Module::Install
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.