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NAME

6       Module::Install::PAR - Module::Install Support for PAR::Dist packages
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SYNOPSIS

9       To offer your users the possibility to install binaries if we cannot
10       compile an XS version of the module, you could use this simplistic
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13           use inc::Module::Install;
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15           name            'Foo';
16           all_from        'lib/Foo.pm';
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18           # Which CPAN directory do we fetch binaries from?
19           par_base        'SMUELLER';
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21           unless ( can_xs ) {
22               my $okay = extract_par( fetch_par );
23               if (not $okay) {
24                   die "No compiler and no binary package found. Aborting.\n";
25               }
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28           WriteAll;
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DESCRIPTION

31       This module adds a couple of directives to Module::Install related to
32       installing and creating PAR::Dist distributions.
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34   par_base
35       This directive sets the CPAN ID from whose CPAN directory to fetch
36       binaries from. For example, you can choose to download binaries from
37       http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/S/SM/SMUELLER/ or its ftp counterpart by
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40         par_base 'SMUELLER';
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42       By default, the name of the file to fetch is generated from the
43       distribution name, its version, your platform name and your perl
44       version concatenated with dashes.
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46       The directive, however, takes an optional second argument which
47       specifies the name of the file to fetch.  (Though "par_base" does not
48       fetch files itself, see below.)
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50         par_base 'SMUELLER', 'foo';
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52       Once "fetch_par" is called, the file 'foo' will be downloaded from
53       SMUELLER's CPAN directory. (It doesn't exist.)
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55       The second argument could be used to fetch platform-agnostic binaries:
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57         par_base 'SMUELLER', "Some-Distribution-0.01.par";
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59       (Documentation TODO: Use the previously defined distribution name and
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62   fetch_par
63       Fetches the .par file previously referenced in the documentation of the
64       "par_base" directive.
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66       "fetch_par" can be used without arguments given the "par_base"
67       directive was used before. It will return the name of the file it
68       fetched.
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70       If the first argument is an URL or a CPAN user ID, the file is fetched
71       from that directory unless an URL has been previously set.  (Read that
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74       If the second argument is a file name it is used as the name of the
75       file to download.
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77       If the file could not be fetched, a suitable error message about no
78       package being available, yada yada yada, is printed.  You can turn this
79       off by specifying a true third argument.
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81         # Try to fetch the package (see par_base) but
82         # don't be verbose about failures
83         my $file = fetch_par('', '', undef);
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85   extract_par
86       Takes the name of a PAR::Dist archive file as first argument. The
87       'blib/' directory of this archive is extracted and the 'pm_to_blib' is
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90       Typical shorthand usage:
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92         extract_par( fetch_par ) or die "Could not install PAR::Dist archive.";
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94   make_par
95       This directive requires PAR::Dist (version 0.03 or up) on your system.
96       (And checks that it is available before continuing.)
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98       Creates a PAR::Dist archive from the 'blib/' subdirectory.
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100       First argument must be the name of the PAR::Dist archive to create.
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102       If your Makefile.PL has a "par_base" directive, the "make par" make
103       target will be available. It uses this "make_par" directive internally,
104       so on your development system, you can do this to create a .par binary
105       archive for your platform:
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107         perl Makefile.PL
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AUTHOR

112       Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
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114       With documentation from Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>
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117       Copyright (c) 2006. Audrey Tang.
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119       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
120       under the same terms as Perl itself.
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122       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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