Module::Install::Admin(3)                  User Contributed Perl Documentation


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:

       o   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.

       o   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.

       o   Look at inc/Module/Install/*.pm and load all of them.

       o   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.

       o   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.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

perl v5.40.0                      2024-09-01         Module::Install::Admin(3)