Software distributions released to the CPAN include a META.json or, for older distributions, META.yml, which describes the distribution, its contents, and the requirements for building and installing the distribution. The data structure stored in the...

The CPAN distribution metadata specification allows custom keys (those that begin with "x_" or "X_" to be added to the metadata. Over time, some keys are being used for their specific purposes. This document tries to list them. This document also lis...

This module implements a subset of the YAML specification for use in reading and writing CPAN metadata files like META.yml and MYMETA.yml. It should not be used for any other general YAML parsing or generation task. NOTE: META.yml (and MYMETA.yml) fi...

Achtung! This library will soon be obsolete as tools move to use the official CPAN::Meta::Spec JSON files. CPAN distributions contain a file, META.yml, which contains a description of the distribution and its contents. This document is notionally wri...

This distribution was written to ensure that a META.yml file, provided with a standard distribution uploaded to CPAN, meets the specifications that are slowly being introduced to module uploads, via the use of package makers and installers such as Ex...

This document describes version 2 of the CPAN distribution metadata specification, also known as the "CPAN Meta Spec". Revisions of this specification for typo corrections and prose clarifications may be issued as CPAN::Meta::Spec 2.*x*. These revisi...

This module verifies if requirements described in a CPAN::Meta object are present....

Parse::CPAN::Meta is a parser for META.json and META.yml files, using JSON::PP and/or CPAN::Meta::YAML. Parse::CPAN::Meta provides three methods: "load_file", "load_json_string", and "load_yaml_string". These will read and deserialize CPAN metafiles,...

This module has no direct public interface, but is intended as a helper module for use of CPAN::SQLite within the CPAN.pm module. A new object is created as my $obj = CPAN::SQLite::META->new($CPAN::META); where $CPAN::META comes from CPAN.pm. There a...

The CPAN Meta Spec has gone through several iterations. It was originally written in HTML and later revised into POD (though published in HTML generated from the POD). Fields were added, removed or changed, sometimes by design and sometimes to reflec...

A CPAN::Meta::Prereqs object represents the prerequisites for a CPAN distribution or one of its optional features. Each set of prereqs is organized by phase and type, as described in CPAN::Meta::Prereqs....

A CPAN::Meta::Feature object describes an optional feature offered by a CPAN distribution and specified in the distribution's META.json (or META.yml) file. For the most part, this class will only be used when operating on the result of the "feature" ...

This module converts CPAN Meta structures from one form to another. The primary use is to convert older structures to the most modern version of the specification, but other transformations may be implemented in the future as needed. (E.g. stripping ...

This module validates a CPAN Meta structure against the version of the the specification claimed in the "meta-spec" field of the structure....

This module was written to ensure that a META.yml file, provided with a standard distribution uploaded to CPAN, meets the specifications that slowly being introduced to module uploads, via the use of ExtUtils::MakeMaker, Module::Build and Module::Ins...

This module was written to ensure that a META.json file, provided with a standard distribution uploaded to CPAN, meets the specifications that are slowly being introduced to module uploads, via the use of package makers and installers such as ExtUtil...

A CPAN::Meta::Requirements object models a set of version constraints like those specified in the META.yml or META.json files in CPAN distributions, and as defined by CPAN::Meta::Spec; It can be built up by adding more and more constraints, and it wi...

This module allows relatively straight forward routines for comparing and itemizing two sets of "CPAN::Meta" prerequisites, plucking out kinds of changes that are interesting....

This distribution was written to ensure that a META.yml file, provided with a standard distribution uploaded to CPAN, meets the specifications that are slowly being introduced to module uploads, via the use of package makers and installers such as Ex...