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.IX Title "CPAN::Plugin 3"
.TH CPAN::Plugin 3 "2018-11-26" "perl v5.10.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
CPAN::Plugin \- Base class for CPAN shell extensions
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\& package CPAN::Plugin::Flurb;
\& use parent \*(AqCPAN::Plugin\*(Aq;
\&
\& sub post_test {
\& my ($self, $distribution_object) = @_;
\& $self = $self\->new (distribution_object => $distribution_object);
\& ...;
\& }
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
.SS "Alpha Status"
.IX Subsection "Alpha Status"
The plugin system in the \s-1CPAN\s0 shell was introduced in version 2.07 and
is still considered experimental.
.SS "How Plugins work?"
.IX Subsection "How Plugins work?"
See \*(L"Plugin support\*(R" in \s-1CPAN\s0.
.SH "METHODS"
.IX Header "METHODS"
.SS "plugin_requires"
.IX Subsection "plugin_requires"
returns list of packages given plugin requires for functionality.
This list is evaluated using \f(CW\*(C`CPAN\->use_inst\*(C'\fR method.
.SS "distribution_object"
.IX Subsection "distribution_object"
Get current distribution object.
.SS "distribution"
.IX Subsection "distribution"
.SS "distribution_info"
.IX Subsection "distribution_info"
.SS "build_dir"
.IX Subsection "build_dir"
Simple delegatees for misc parameters derived from distribution
.SS "is_xs"
.IX Subsection "is_xs"
Predicate to detect whether package contains \s-1XS\s0.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Branislav Zahradnik <barney@cpan.org>
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