Module::Install::Admin(3p)

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.

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