man Module::Install::Admin (3): 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 <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.