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Class-Mixer version 0.5
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This module is designed to solve a problem which occurs when using inheritance
to mixin behaviors into a class hierarchy.  The dependencies between a large
number of mixin modules may be complex, making it tricky to get the base 
classes to inherit in the right order.  

Then if you have class Main which gets the inheritance right, and you want
to add a class Mixin which needs to go in the middle of the 
inheritance, you cannot simply do C<package NewMain; use base qw(Main Mixin);>
because Mixin will be put at the end of the inheritance chain.

Also, if you have a class Foo::Better which enhances the Foo behavior,
the same problem occurs trying to mixin Foo::Better.  And it is even worse
if some classes have done C<use base 'Foo';> to try to enforce the correct
hierarchy.

This module solves the problems by implementing a dependency-based hierarchy.
You declare the relations between the classes, and an order of inheritance
which will support those relations is determined automatically.


INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Class::C3

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2009 by John Williams

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.