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Alien Perl module package contains external libraries wrapped up for your viewing pleasure!

SYNOPSIS

perldoc Alien;

Alien is a package that exists just to hold together an idea, the idea of Alien:: packages, so there is no code here, just motivation for Alien.

Why

James and I ended up doing a build system for Fotango, lots of people have done a build system, it is a pretty boring task. The boring task is really all the mindlessly stupid things you need to do to build C libraries that Perl modules require, these C modules usually have unusual installation systems or require vastly different options. So CPAN modules install easy, 3rd party stuff is nasty.
So, suddenly an idea struck me, Alien packages! Imagine a CPAN module that has as its only task to make sure a certain library is installed! That means that you can write all the voodoo in your Build.PL file and then just make sure the module requires the correct Alien module! Then anything that install Perl modules will deal with it automatically!

How

So, what should an Alien module do? It should make sure that the target is installed and it should provide the caller with enough information to use it.
The idea is that you use it to make sure it is there, and you call class methods to find out what to use. These class methods will be individually specified by the stand alone Alien modules.

No Framework!

The reason this is so loosely worded is because we have no idea what common functionality will be needed, so we will let evolution work for us and see what individual Alien packages need and then eventually factor it out into this packages. I would like to avoid a topdown design approach.

Responsibilities of a Alien module.

On installation, make sure the required package is there, otherwise install it.
On usage, make sure the required package is there, else croak.

Bundle the source with the module, or download it.

Allow module authors to access information it gathers.

Document itself well.

Preferably use Module::Build.

Be sane.

The metric implemented in the Image::Density Perl Module estimates the density of data where there is data, and has a reasonable correlation with goodness as judged by humans.

That is, if you let a human look at a set of images and judge quality, the density values for those images as calculated here tend to correlate well with the human judgement (densities that are too high or too low represent "bad images).

This project is intended for use on bitonal TIFF images, such as those from scanning paper documents.

OpenGeDB Perl module is a module to access the OpenGeoDB database and calculate all ZIP codes in a certain radius.

Test::UseAllModules is a Perl module that uses use_ok() function for all modules MANIFESTed.

SYNOPSIS

# basic use
use strict;
use Test::UseAllModules;

BEGIN { all_uses_ok(); }

# if you have modules thatll fail use_ok() for themselves
use strict;
use Test::UseAllModules;

BEGIN {
all_uses_ok except => qw(
Some::Dependent::Module
Another::Dependent::Module
^Yet::Another::Dependent::.* # you can use regex
)
}

Im sick of writing 00_load.t (or something like that) thatll do use_ok() for every module I write. Im sicker of updating 00_load.t when I add another file to the distro. This module reads MANIFEST to find modules to be tested and does use_ok() for each of them. Now all you have to do is updating MANIFEST. You dont have to modify the test any more (hopefully).

Module::Install is a standalone, extensible Perl module installer.

SYNOPSIS

In your Makefile.PL: (Recommended Usage)
# Load the Module::Install bundled in ./inc/
use inc::Module::Install;

# Define metadata
name Your-Module;
all_from lib/Your/Module.pm;

# Specific dependencies
requires Carp => 0;
requires File::Spec => 0.80;
build_requires Test::More => 0.42;
recommends Your::OtherModule => 0.01;

no_index directory => demos;

install_script bin/myscript;

auto_install;
WriteAll;

Quickly upgrade a legacy ExtUtil::MakeMaker installer:

# Drop-in replacement to ExtUtils::MakeMaker
use inc::Module::Install;
WriteMakefile( ... );

A dummy Build.PL so we can work with Module::Build as well:

# Dear Distribution Packager. This use of require is intentional.
# Module::Install detects Build.PL usage and acts accordingly.
require Makefile.PL;

Module::Install is a package for writing installers for CPAN (or CPAN-like) distributions that are clean, simple, minimalist, act in a strictly correct manner with both the ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build build systems, and will run on any Perl installation version 5.004 or newer.

The intent is to make it as easy as possible for CPAN authors (and especially for first-time CPAN authors) to have installers that follow all the best practices for distribution installation, but involve as much DWIM (Do What I Mean) as possible when writing them.

Perl OpenID is a perl module for verifying OpenID identities.
Main features:
- asy-to-use API
- Does not depend on underlying web framework
- Extensive documentaion
- Ready-to-use store implementation
- Test suite
- Licensed under the LGPL
Enhancements:
- This release contains a tested, documented library with support for OpenID extensions and Yadis.
- There are examples for both the consumer and server.

App::Modular is a Perl module with modularization framework for perl programs.
SYNOPSIS
package App::Modular::Module::Test;
use base qw(App::Modular::Module);
sub say_hello {
print "Hello, dear user!";
};
package main;
use App::Modular;
my $modul = instance App::Modular;
$modul->module(Test)->say_hello();
exit;
App::Modular aims to provide a framework which should it make very easy to programmes to create any kind of modular program.
It supports:
- module dependency solving
- autoloading of modules
- event handling (implemented as a contributed App::Modular module)

Perl::Dist::Builder is a Perl module to create win32 Perl installers.

SYNOPSIS

use Perl::Dist::Builder;
my $pdb = Perl::Dist::Builder->new( vanilla.yml );
$pdb->remove_image;
$pdb->build_all;

Perl::Dist::Builder is alpha software.

Perl::Dist::Builder uses a configuration file to automatically generate a complete, standalone Perl distribution in a directory suitable for bundling into an executable installer.

Perl::Dist::Builder requires Perl and numerous modules. See Perl::Dist::Bootstrap for details on how to bootstrap a Perl environment suitable for building new Perl distributions.