Installing Perl Modules

thil has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi,
Im having a lot of perl modules to intall. (not CPAN modules - Modules written for a particular application)
Currently I am using the follwing Perl Makefile for the installation.


use 5.008003;
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;

WriteMakefile(
    NAME              => 'My::Folder::Structure::MyModule',
    VERSION_FROM      => 'My/Folder/Structure/MyModule.pm', 
    PREREQ_PM         => {}, 
    ($] >= 5.005 ?     
      (ABSTRACT_FROM  => 'My/Folder/Stucture/MyModule.pm', 
       AUTHOR         => 'user <user@localdomain>') : ()),
);
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But if My/Folder/Stucture/ has 15 modules to be installed, I have to change the module name for each installation.

Is there any way to install all the modules in a particular directory at once or in some easier way?

Thanks.

Thilani

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Re: Installing Perl Modules by imp (Priest) on Aug 30, 2006 at 04:59 UTC
My personal preference is to create a distribution for the reusable modules at a company. I have had good luck with the module-starter tool, which is provided by Module::Starter. For example: `module-starter --email "thil@something.com" --author "Thil" --module " +Foo::Bar"` [download] This creates a Foo-Bar directory with the following structure: Foo-Bar/ \|-- Changes \|-- MANIFEST \|-- Makefile.PL \|-- README \|-- lib \| `-- Foo \| `-- Bar.pm `-- t \|-- 00-load.t \|-- boilerplate.t \|-- pod-coverage.t `-- pod.t The Makefile.PL is generated as follows: `use strict; use warnings; use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; WriteMakefile( NAME => 'Foo::Bar', AUTHOR => 'Thil <thil@something.com>', VERSION_FROM => 'lib/Foo/Bar.pm', ABSTRACT_FROM => 'lib/Foo/Bar.pm', PL_FILES => {}, PREREQ_PM => { 'Test::More' => 0, }, dist => { COMPRESS => 'gzip -9f', SUFFIX => 'gz', } +, clean => { FILES => 'Foo-Bar-' }, );` [download] Once you add the modules to your lib/* tree you can make a distribution tarball very easily. After that is done you could add these modules to a local CPAN server and use CPAN, or use the CPAN module's API to install locally. Personally I use a shell script that I wrote awhile ago. I have a 90% rewritten perl version of the same, but I keep getting distracted.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Installing Perl Modules by thil (Sexton) on Aug 30, 2006 at 06:28 UTC
Thanks imp. It worked and it makes the task a lot more easy.	[reply]