NAME

pm-metainfo - dump meta info from a perl module

SYNOPSIS

pm-metainfo perl-module-distfile.tar.gz

DESCRIPTION

This is a demonstrator program which simply dumps a description of all it can work out about a perl module to stdout. It could be used for more interesting things, but normally a different program which interfaces Module::MetaInfo.pm would be written instead.

The output of this program can also be read from and parsed directly for use in shell scripts.

OPTIONS

--modlist=<filename>

This option tells pm-metainfo to use filename as the file where the uncompressed machine readable version of the modules list is stored (normally distributed as 03modlist.data.gz). When this is activated extra meta information will be provided where available.

--verbose

this option turns on debugging information

AUTHOR

This program is copyright to Michael De La Rue and is distributed under the General Public License. If you would like to use parts of this program in developing perl then please contact the author who will almost certainly be willing to relicense those parts under the same terms as perl its self.

COPYRIGHT

You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.

SEE ALSO

Module::MetaInfo