Archive::Builder 1.06

Archive::Builder is a file generation and archiving framework.

SYNOPSIS

# Make a builder with one section, and some files
my $Builder = Archive::Builder->new;
my $Section = $Builder->new_section( html );
$Section->add_file( one.html, string, qq~
Hello World!
~ );
$Section->add_file( two.html, file, ./source/file.html );
$Section->add_file( three.html, Custom::function, @args );

# Generate and save to disk
$Builder->save( ./somewhere );

# Create an zip file from it and save it.
my $Archive = $Builder->archive( zip ).
$Archive->save( foo.zip );

# Create a tar.gz file of just one section
my $Tar = $Section->archive( tar.gz );

Perl is often used for applications that generate large numbers of files, and Archive::Builder is designed to assist in these sorts of tasks.

It provides a framework for defining a set of files, and how they will be generated, and a series of methods for turning them into an Archive of varying types, or saving directly to disk.