perl-CPAN-DistnameInfo

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 the
http://search.cpan.org/ manpage 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



          

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License: GPL-1.0+ or Artistic-1.0
URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CPAN-DistnameInfo/