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NAME

Package - Acmeist Module Packaging Toolchain

SYNOPSIS

From the command line:

> pkg new --perl=package --module=Foo::Bar foo-bar-pm

From a Makefile.PL:

use inc::Package;

NOTE: In this package, Package, the term "package" is used in the Acmeist sense; a collection of software, doc, tests and an installer, all bundled up into a nice little package. It does not refer to the Perl, in memory, namespacing keyword: package.

DESCRIPTION

Package is a toolchain for packaging module distributions. Not just Perl modules, but modules from many different languages.

This Perl module/distribtion is a little bit overloaded. It supports 3 distinct things, outlined below.

NOTE: I did consider releasing these as 3 separate packages, and may do so in the future, but for now it seems (slightly awkward, yet) best to have them all in the Package distribution.

Package Creation and Maintenance

This package installs a command line tool called pkg, that can be used to create and maintain open source module packages in several programming languages. See pkg and Package::Command for full details.

A Replacement For inc::Module::Install

This Perl package lets you say:

use inc::Package;

in your Makefile.PL, instead of:

use inc::Module::Install;

This does everything Module::Install does and more. It does it in a cleaner way, and solves many of the problems that Module::Install users have worked around in various, ugly ways.

See inc::Package for details.

Module::Install::Package

This Module::Install plugin does all the heavy hitting for inc::Package. It attempts to fix all the problems of Module::Install, in one go. Yet is really just a Module::Install plugin, like any other, and can be used with or without inc::Package.

STATUS

This is a early, "proving concepts", release. Keep out.

AUTHOR

Ingy döt Net <ingy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2011. Ingy döt Net.

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