NAME

CPAN::Unpack - Unpack CPAN distributions

SYNOPSIS

use CPAN::Unpack;
my $u = CPAN::Unpack->new;
$u->cpan("path/to/CPAN/");
$u->destination("cpan_unpacked/");
$u->quiet(1);
$u->unpack;

DESCRIPTION

The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a very useful collection of Perl code. It has a whole lot of module distributions. This module unpacks the latest version of each distribution. It places it in a directory of your choice with directories being the name of the distribution.

It requires a local CPAN mirror to run. You can construct one using something similar to:

/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete ftp.nic.funet.fi::CPAN /Users/acme/cpan/CPAN/

Note that a CPAN mirror can take up about 1.5G of space (and will take a while to rsync initially). Additionally, unpacking will use up about another 1.6G.

This can be handy for code metrics, searching CPAN, or just being very nosy indeed.

This uses Parse::CPAN::Packages::Fast's latest_distributions method for finding the latest distribution.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004-8, Leon Brocard 2012, Dennis Kaarsemaker

LICENSE

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