1CPAN::DistnameInfo(3) User Contributed Perl DocumentationCPAN::DistnameInfo(3)
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NAME

6       CPAN::DistnameInfo - Extract distribution name and version from a dis‐
7       tribution filename
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SYNOPSIS

10         my $pathname = "authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02.tar.gz";
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12         my $d = CPAN::DistnameInfo->new($pathname);
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14         my $dist      = $d->dist;      # "CPAN-DistnameInfo"
15         my $version   = $d->version;   # "0.02"
16         my $maturity  = $d->maturity;  # "released"
17         my $filename  = $d->filename;  # "CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02.tar.gz"
18         my $cpanid    = $d->cpanid;    # "GBARR"
19         my $distvname = $d->distvname; # "CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02"
20         my $extension = $d->extension; # "tar.gz"
21         my $pathname  = $d->pathname;  # "authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/..."
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23         my %prop = $d->properties;
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DESCRIPTION

26       Many online services that are centered around CPAN attempt to associate
27       multiple uploads by extracting a distribution name from the filename of
28       the upload. For most distributions this is easy as they have used ExtU‐
29       tils::MakeMaker or Module::Build to create the distribution, which
30       results in a uniform name. But sadly not all uploads are created in
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33       "CPAN::DistnameInfo" uses heuristics that have been learnt by
34       <http://search.cpan.org/> to extract the distribution name and version
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36       developer release
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38       The constructor takes a single pathname, returning an object with the
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41       cpanid
42           If the path given looked like a CPAN authors directory path, then
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45       dist
46           The name of the distribution
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49           The file name with any suffix and leading directory names removed
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51       filename
52           If the path given looked like a CPAN authors directory path, then
53           this will be the path to the file relative to the detected CPAN
54           author directory. Otherwise it is the path that was passed in.
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56       maturity
57           The maturity of the distribution. This will be either "released" or
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60       extension
61           The extension of the distribution, often used to denote the archive
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64       pathname
65           The pathname that was passed to the constructor when creating the
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68       properties
69           This will return a list of key-value pairs, suitable for assigning
70           to a hash, for the known properties.
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73           The extracted version
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AUTHOR

76       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
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79       Copyright (c) 2003 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is
80       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
81       terms as Perl itself.
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85perl v5.8.8                       2004-09-20             CPAN::DistnameInfo(3)
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