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       along with yours, unless a newer version of the bundled distribution already exists on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 distribution to be installed will be acquired from CPAN
       and then installed.

METHODS

       •   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/.

       •   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/.

       •   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' );

       •   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.