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

NAME
       CPAN::DistnameInfo - Extract distribution name and version from a
       distribution filename

SYNOPSIS
	 my $pathname =	"authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02.tar.gz";

	 my $d = CPAN::DistnameInfo->new($pathname);

	 my $dist      = $d->dist;	# "CPAN-DistnameInfo"
	 my $version   = $d->version;	# "0.02"
	 my $maturity  = $d->maturity;	# "released"
	 my $filename  = $d->filename;	# "CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02.tar.gz"
	 my $cpanid    = $d->cpanid;	# "GBARR"
	 my $distvname = $d->distvname;	# "CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02"
	 my $extension = $d->extension;	# "tar.gz"
	 my $pathname  = $d->pathname;	# "authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/..."

	 my %prop = $d->properties;

DESCRIPTION
       Many online services that are centered around CPAN attempt to associate
       multiple	uploads	by extracting a	distribution name from the filename of
       the upload. For most distributions this is easy as they have used
       ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build to create the distribution,	which
       results in a uniform name. But sadly not	all uploads are	created	in
       this way.

       "CPAN::DistnameInfo" uses heuristics that have been learnt by
       <http://search.cpan.org/> to extract the	distribution name and version
       from filenames and also report if the version is	to be treated as a
       developer release

       The constructor takes a single pathname,	returning an object with the
       following methods

       cpanid
	   If the path given looked like a CPAN	authors	directory path,	then
	   this	will be	the the	CPAN id	of the author.

       dist
	   The name of the distribution

       distvname
	   The file name with any suffix and leading directory names removed

       filename
	   If the path given looked like a CPAN	authors	directory path,	then
	   this	will be	the path to the	file relative to the detected CPAN
	   author directory. Otherwise it is the path that was passed in.

       maturity
	   The maturity	of the distribution. This will be either "released" or
	   "developer"

       extension
	   The extension of the	distribution, often used to denote the archive
	   type	(e.g. 'tar.gz')

       pathname
	   The pathname	that was passed	to the constructor when	creating the
	   object.

       properties
	   This	will return a list of key-value	pairs, suitable	for assigning
	   to a	hash, for the known properties.

       version
	   The extracted version

AUTHOR
       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2003 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is
       free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as	Perl itself.

perl v5.32.1			  2011-03-11		 CPAN::DistnameInfo(3)

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