| Module::Install::Admin(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | Module::Install::Admin(3) |
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¶
SEE ALSO¶
Module::Install
AUTHORS¶
Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
| 2012-03-01 | perl v5.16.3 |