NAME

Parse::CPAN::Packages - Parse 02packages.details.txt.gz

SYNOPSIS

  use Parse::CPAN::Packages;
  
  # must have downloading and un-gzip-ed
  my $p = Parse::CPAN::Packages->new("02packages.details.txt");

  my $m = $p->package("Acme::Colour");
  # $m is a Parse::CPAN::Packages::Package object
  print $m->package, "\n";    # Acme::Colour
  print $m->version, "\n";   # 1.00

  my $d = $p->distribution;
  # $d is a Parse::CPAN::Packages::Package object
  print $d->prefix, "\n";    # L/LB/LBROCARD/Acme-Colour-1.00.tar.gz
  print $d->dist, "\n";      # Acme-Colour
  print $d->version, "\n";   # 1.00
  print $d->maturity, "\n";  # released
  print $d->filename, "\n";  # Acme-Colour-1.00.tar.gz
  print $d->cpanid, "\n";    # LBROCARD
  print $d->distvname, "\n"; # Acme-Colour-1.00

  my @packages = $p->packages;
  # all the package objects

DESCRIPTION

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a very useful collection of Perl code. It has several indices of the files that it hosts, including a file named "02packages.details.txt.gz" in the "modules" directory. This file contains lots of useful information and this module provides a simple interface to the data contained within.

Note that this module does not concern itself with downloading or unpacking this file. You should do this yourself.

The constructor takes the path to the 02packages.details.txt file. It defaults to loading the file from the current directory.

In a future release Parse::CPAN::Packages::Package and Parse::CPAN::Packages::Distribution might have more information.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004, Leon Brocard

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