Module::Install::Admin

NAME

Module::Install::Admin − Author−side manager for Module::Install

SYNOPSIS

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.

DESCRIPTION

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 " COOKBOOK / EXAMPLES" in Module::Install instead.

Bootstrapping
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:

	•		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.
	•		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.
	•		Provide a `"Module::Install::purge_self"` function for removing included files under inc/.

METHODS

AUTHORS

Audrey Tang <autrijus AT autrijus DOT org>

COPYRIGHT

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>

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