Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules

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

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A couple years ago, I wrote an entire billing/accounting/client management system suited for an *SP environment. To see how CPAN would deal with it, I threw it up: http://search.cpan.org/~steveb/Business-ISP-0.13_02/README

The system isn't really installable, but when it is installed, it is functional. Overlook the crappy code I desire to fix for a moment...

What I want to know, is how I can tell CPAN to install all of my modules from this distribution in one pass. I've found it isn't as easy as "perl -MCPAN -e 'install Business::ISP::'. I tried to include an ISP.pm module to see if that would help, but it didn't. This distribution is more of a complete integrated system than anything

Beyond that, this project uses ExtUtils::MakeMaker, which I am having a hard time figuring out how to ensure dependencies are installed. I have a user-input Makefile.PL that I bypass for CPAN, but I'm kind of stuck in these two areas to move forward on this project.

Any tips appreciated.

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Re: Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules by VinsWorldcom (Prior) on Mar 08, 2012 at 21:13 UTC
If they're not bundled in the same distribution (.tar.gz) file then you could put prerequisites in the Makefile.PL of each separate module. Since you said you use ExtUtils::MakeMaker, I've done that with: `# # $Id: Makefile.PL 49 2009-05-31 13:15:34Z $ # use ExtUtils::MakeMaker; require v5.6.1; WriteMakefile( NAME => 'Module::Name', VERSION_FROM => 'lib/Module/Name.pm', LICENSE => 'artistic', ABSTRACT_FROM => 'lib/Module/Name.pm', AUTHOR => 'VinsWorldcom', PREREQ_PM => { Business::ISP::m1 => 1.00 # must be greater than ver 1 Business::ISP::m2 => 0 # version doesn't matter }, );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules by stevieb (Canon) on Mar 08, 2012 at 21:21 UTC
What I was hoping for, was the ability to have a 'root' or a top-level of my distribution so that everything within its relative namespace gets installed. The PREREQ_PM only warns that dependencies aren't installed. What I'd like (at minimum) is for all of my modules under this distro to be installed by default, and then the rest of the prereq's installed automatically, or by choice by the user. I hope I am explaining myself clearly ;) sb	[reply]
Re^3: Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 08, 2012 at 21:23 UTC
If you are in your distribution directory, the command `cpan .` [download] (note that dot) will install all prerequisites and then that module from CPAN. The alternative is to just include all modules in your distribution directly. There is no mechanism to tell CPAN to "just pull in all things within that same namespace", except to list all these modules yourself.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules by tobyink (Canon) on Mar 08, 2012 at 22:54 UTC
CPAN should automatically install every module within a distribution when a single module is requested. For example, if you install HTTP::Request you'll find that HTTP::Message, HTTP::Reponse, HTTP::Headers, HTTP::Status and others get installed as well because they're part of the same distribution. That's just how CPAN and ExtUtils::MakeMaker work. If this is not working for you, then you're probably using ExtUtils::MakeMaker wrong.	[reply]
Re: Entire project on CPAN -- including all modules by pemungkah (Priest) on Mar 09, 2012 at 02:29 UTC
You may possibly want to create a "bundle", which is a fake package that says "I have no code of my own, just dependencies". This makes it simple to install a whole bunch od stuff at once. Here's an example of how to make a CPAN bundle.	[reply]