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

NAME

       Module::Install::Bundle - Bundle distributions along with your distribution

SYNOPSIS

       Have your Makefile.PL read as follows:

	 use inc::Module::Install;

	 name	   'Foo-Bar';
	 all_from  'lib/Foo/Bar.pm';
	 requires  'Baz' => '1.60';

	 # one of either:
	 bundle    'Baz' => '1.60';
	 # OR:
	 auto_bundle;

	 WriteAll;

DESCRIPTION

       Module::Install::Bundle allows you to bundle a CPAN distribution within your distribution. When your end-users install your distribution,
       the bundled distribution will be installed along with yours, unless a newer version of the bundled distribution already exists on their
       local filesystem.

       While bundling will increase the size of your distribution, it has several benefits:

	 Allows installation of bundled distributions when CPAN is unavailable
	 Allows installation of bundled distributions when networking is unavailable
	 Allows everything your distribution needs to be packaged in one place

       Bundling differs from auto-installation in that when it comes time to install, a bundled distribution will be installed based on the
       distribution bundled with your distribution, whereas with auto-installation the distibution to be installed will be acquired from CPAN and
       then installed.

METHODS

       o   auto_bundle()

	   Takes no arguments, will bundle every distribution specified by a "requires()".  When you, as a module author, do a "perl Makefile.PL"
	   the latest versions of the distributions to be bundled will be acquired from CPAN and placed in inc/BUNDLES/.

       o   bundle($name, $version)

	   Takes a list of key/value pairs specifying a distribution name and version number. When you, as a module author, do a perl Makefile.PL
	   the distributions that you specified with "bundle()" will be acquired from CPAN and placed in inc/BUNDLES/.

       o   bundle_deps($name, $version)

	   Same as "bundle", except that all dependencies of the bundled modules are also detected and bundled.  To use this function, you need to
	   declare the minimum supported perl version first, like this:

	       perl_version( '5.005' );

       o   auto_bundle_deps

	   Same as "auto_bundle", except that all dependencies of the bundled modules are also detected and bundled. This function has the same
	   constraints as bundle_deps.

BUGS

       Please report any bugs to (patches welcome):

	   http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Module-Install

AUTHORS

       Audrey Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>

       Documentation by Adam Foxson <afoxson@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2003, 2004, 2005 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.

perl v5.16.3							    2012-03-01						Module::Install::Bundle(3)