Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages

  use Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages;

  # you can't pass the raw content of 02packages.details.txt(.gz)
  my $packages = Acme::CPANAuthors::Utils::Packages->new(
    'cpan/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz'
  );

  my $package = $packages->package('Acme::CPANAuthors');

  my $dist    = $packages->distribution('I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz');

  my $latest  = $packages->latest_distribution('Acme-CPANAuthors');

This is a subset of Parse::CPAN::Packages. The reading methods are similar in general (accessors are marked as read-only, though). Internals and data-parsing methods may be different, but you usually don't need to care.

always takes a file name (both raw .txt file and .txt.gz file name are acceptable). Raw content of the file is not acceptable.

takes a name of a package, and returns an object that represents it.

takes a file name of a distribution, and returns an object that represents it.

takes a name of a distribution, and returns an object that represents the latest version of it.

returns a list of stored packages or (latest) distribution objects.

returns the number of stored packages or (latest) distributions.

These are accessors to the preamble information of 02packages.details.txt.

  my $package = $packages->package('Acme::CPANAuthors');
  print $package->package, "\n"; # Acme::CPANAuthors
  print $package->version, "\n"; # 0.12

returns an object that represents the distribution that the package belongs to.

  my $dist = $packages->distribution('I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz');
  print $dist->prefix,"\n";    # I/IS/ISHIGAKI/Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz
  print $dist->dist,"\n";      # Acme-CPANAuthors
  print $dist->version,"\n";   # 0.12
  print $dist->maturity,"\n";  # released
  print $dist->filename,"\n";  # Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12.tar.gz
  print $dist->cpanid,"\n";    # ISHIGAKI
  print $dist->distvname,"\n"; # Acme-CPANAuthors-0.12

returns a list of objects that represent the packages the distribution contains. packages method returns it as an array reference, contains returns it as an array.

Parse::CPAN::Packages

Kenichi Ishigaki, <ishigaki@cpan.org>

Copyright (C) 2010 by Kenichi Ishigaki.

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