NAME
    Getopt::Inherited - Handling inherited command-line options

SYNOPSIS
        use base 'Getopt::Inherited';

        use constant GETOPT => qw(foo=s);
        my $app = __PACKAGE__->new;
        $app->do_getopt;

DESCRIPTION
    By subclassing this mixin class, your program gets the ability to
    inherit command-line option specifications. If you have several programs
    that share common code and common command-line options you don't want to
    have to write the command-line processing code again and again. Using
    this class you can abstract command-line options shared by your programs
    into a superclass from which your programs then inherit. Additionally,
    this class defines certain common command-line options itself.

    You can also define defaults for command-line options.

METHODS
    "GETOPT"
        This accessor, which is accumulated across the class hierarchy using
        Data::Inherited, is used to define command-line options in the same
        format as Getopt::Long expects. This class, Getopt::Inherited,
        itself defines the following options:

            use constant GETOPT =>
                (qw(help man logfile|log=s verbose|v+ version|V));

    "GETOPT_DEFAULTS"
        This accessor, which is also accumulated across the class hierarchy,
        can be used to define defaults for the options given in "GETOPT()".
        For example, to define a command-line option called <foo> which
        takes a string and to give it a default, you would use:

            use constant GETOPT => qw(foo=s);
            use constant GETOPT_DEFAULTS => (foo => 'my_default');

    "opt"
        This is a hash accessor per Class::Accessor::Complex in which the
        option hash is stored when it has been parsed and after default
        values have been applied.

    "usage"
        This method is called by "do_getopt()" after the command-line
        options have been processed with Getopt::Long's "GetOptions". It
        uses Pod::Usage to display help information if there was either an
        error during processing, or if the "--help" or "--man" options have
        been given.

    "do_getopt"
        Does the actual command-line processing. It accumulates the values
        of GETOPT() across the hierarchy, parses them, calls "usage()" if
        necessary, applies GETOPT_DEFAULTS(), then assigns the finished
        options hash to "opt()".

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
    No bugs have been reported.

    Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
    <http://rt.cpan.org>.

INSTALLATION
    See perlmodinstall for information and options on installing Perl
    modules.

AVAILABILITY
    The latest version of this module is available from the Comprehensive
    Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Visit <http://www.perl.com/CPAN/> to find a
    CPAN site near you. Or see
    <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Getopt-Inherited/>.

    The development version lives at
    <http://github.com/hanekomu/getopt-inherited/>. Instead of sending
    patches, please fork this project using the standard git and github
    infrastructure.

AUTHORS
    Marcel Grünauer, "<marcel@cpan.org>"

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 2009 by Marcel Grünauer

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