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NAME

Module::Install::ParseRequires - A Module::Install extension that provides an alternate way to specify dependencies

VERSION

version 0.002

SYNOPSIS

# In Makefile.PL

use inc::Module::Install;

parse_requires build => <<_END_;
Test::More 1
_END_

parse_requires <<_END_;
DBI
DBIx::Class 
Moose
_END_

DESCRIPTION

Module::Install::ParseRequires is a Module::Install extension that lets you use a here-document to specify dependencies

USAGE

parse_requires $document

Parse $document, treating each line as a space-separated distribution/version combination. If no version is specified, then 0 is assumed (as usual)

parse_requires <<_END_
Moose
Xyzzy 1.02
JSON 2
_END_

Is equivalent to:

requires 'Moose' => 0
requires 'Xyzzy' => 1.02
requires 'JSON' => 2

parse_requires $kind, $document

Parse $document similar to parse_requires above. Instead of calling requires on each dependency, however, the kind of requirement will be inferred from $kind, which can be build, test, etc.

parse_requires test => <<_END_
Test::More
Test::Xyzzy 1.02
_END_

Is equivalent to:

test_requires 'Test::More' => 0
test_requires 'Test::Xyzzy' => 1.02

parse_recommends $document

Same as parse_requires but does a recommend instead

SEE ALSO

Module::Install

AUTHOR

Robert Krimen <robertkrimen@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Robert Krimen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.