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NAME

Project::Libs - Add module directories of a project into @INC automatically

SYNOPSIS

# the simplest way
use Project::Libs;

# add more other dirs into @INC
use Project::Libs lib_dirs => [qw(extlib vendor modules/*/lib)];

# add more other marks locate on a project root
use Project::Libs project_root_files => [qw(README Changes)];

DESCRIPTION

Project::Libs automatically adds directories that may contain modules which a project depends on.

Imagin there's such a project as below: CPAN-standard file arrangement and using git as a SCM (`modules' directory contains git submodules and that's written in `.gitmodules').

|_ PROJECT_ROOT
   |_ .git
   |_ .gitmodules
   |_ Makefile.PL
   |_ lib/
   |_ t/
      |_ lib/
      |_ compile.t
      |_ basic.t
   |_ script/
      |_ server.pl
      |_ create.pl
   |_ extlib/
   |_ modules/
      |_ Foo
         |_ lib/
      |_ Bar
         |_ lib/
      |_ ...

You may bother writing such code as below in all the script located in t/*, script/*, or other to add module path into @INC.

use FindBin;
use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
use lib glob "$FindBin::Bin/../modules/*/lib";

To `use Project::Libs' helps you doing that.

In this case, after loading this module, the directories below are added into @INC:

  • lib

  • extlib

  • t/lib

  • modules/Foo/lib

  • modules/Bar/lib

AUTHOR

Kentaro Kuribayashi <kentaro@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE (The MIT License)

Copyright (c) Kentaro Kuribayashi <kentaro@cpan.org>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.