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OVERVIEW

This class is useful in three scenarios:

when writing your App::Cmd subclass

Instead of writing:

  package MyApp;
  use parent 'App::Cmd';
    

...you can write:

  package MyApp;
  use App::Cmd::Setup -app;
    

The benefits of doing this are mostly minor, and relate to sanity-checking your class. The significant benefit is that this form allows you to specify plugins, as in:

  package MyApp;
  use App::Cmd::Setup -app => { plugins => [ 'Prompt' ] };
    

Plugins are described in App::Cmd::Tutorial and App::Cmd::Plugin.

when writing abstract base classes for commands

That is: when you write a subclass of App::Cmd::Command that is intended for other commands to use as their base class, you should use App::Cmd::Setup. For example, if you want all the commands in MyApp to inherit from MyApp::Command, you may want to write that package like this:

  package MyApp::Command;
  use App::Cmd::Setup -command;
    

Do not confuse this with the way you will write specific commands:

  package MyApp::Command::mycmd;
  use MyApp -command;
    

Again, this form mostly performs some validation and setup behind the scenes for you. You can use "base" if you prefer.

when writing App::Cmd plugins

App::Cmd::Plugin is a mechanism that allows an App::Cmd class to inject code into all its command classes, providing them with utility routines.

To write a plugin, you must use App::Cmd::Setup. As seen above, you must also use App::Cmd::Setup to set up your App::Cmd subclass if you wish to consume plugins.

For more information on writing plugins, see App::Cmd::Manual and App::Cmd::Plugin.

PERL VERSION SUPPORT

Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.