NAME

cpanthanks - Thank your CPAN authors

SYNOPSIS

    cpanthanks [options] -- path [, path2, ...]

    Options:
        --limit NUMBER                     only shows top NUMBER entries (default: 5)
        --order-by popularity|diversity    order your results (default: popularity)
        --skip-modules LIST                skip modules (default: lib strict warnings)
        --skip-authors LIST                skip authors (default: none skipped)

    Usage Examples:

       cpanthanks --skip-authors MYCPANID --limit 3 -- some/path other/path
       cpanthanks --order-by=diversity -- my/project/path

OPTIONS

--limit NUMBER

only shows the top NUMBER entires. Defaults to 5.

--order-by TYPE

order results by 'popularity' (authors from modules you used the most) or 'diversity' (authors with the most modules used by you).

--skip-modules LIST

skip modules/pragmas that you don't want to consider. By default it skips 'lib', 'strict' and 'warnings';

--skip-authors LIST

skip authors you don't want to consider. If you are a CPAN author yourself, you should consider skipping yourself :)

DESCRIPTION

This program will parse all perl files/modules from a given list of directories to try and find module authors to thank for. If you can, please find the time to thank every author whose module helped you in your projects/work :D

THANKS!

This tiny app would not be possible without the incredible developers who wrote the modules that it depends on! So...

Thank you Masaaki Goshima for Compiler::Lexer!

Thank you David Golden for Path::Class::Rule!

Thank you Mickey Nasriachi and Sawyer for MetaCPAN::Client!

Thank you Tatsuhiko Miyagawa and Audrey Tang for Term::Encoding!

Thank you Russ Allbery for Term::ANSIColor!

Thank you Jean-Louis Morel for Win32::Console::ANSI!

Thank you Graham Barr and Paul Evans for List::Util!

Thank you Yuval Kogman and Jesse Luehrs for Try::Tiny!

Thank you Johan Vromans for Getopt::Long!

Thank you Marek Rouchal and Brad Appleton for Pod::Usage!

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2014, Breno G. de Oliveira <garu@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.

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

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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