NAME

Module::Install::ReadmeFromPod - A Module::Install extension to automatically convert POD to a README

SYNOPSIS

# In Makefile.PL

use inc::Module::Install;
author 'Vestan Pants';
license 'perl';
readme_from 'lib/Some/Module.pm';

A README file will be generated from the POD of the indicated module file.

DESCRIPTION

Module::Install::ReadmeFromPod is a Module::Install extension that generates a README file automatically from an indicated file containing POD, whenever the author runs Makefile.PL.

COMMANDS

This plugin adds the following Module::Install command:

readme_from

Does nothing on the user-side. On the author-side it will generate a README file using Pod::Text from the POD in the file passed as a parameter.

readme_from 'lib/Some/Module.pm';

If a second parameter is set to a true value then the README will be removed at make distclean.

readme_from 'lib/Some/Module.pm' => 'clean';

AUTHOR

Chris BinGOs Williams

LICENSE

Copyright © Chris Williams

This module may be used, modified, and distributed under the same terms as Perl itself. Please see the license that came with your Perl distribution for details.

SEE ALSO

Module::Install

Pod::Text