NAME
CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs
VERSION
version 5.20241220
SYNOPSIS
use CPAN::Perl::Releases qw[perl_tarballs];
my $perl = '5.14.0';
my $hashref = perl_tarballs( $perl );
print "Location: ", $_, "\n" for values %{ $hashref };
DESCRIPTION
CPAN::Perl::Releases is a module that contains the mappings of all perl
releases that have been uploaded to CPAN to the authors/id/
path that the tarballs reside in.
This is static data, but newer versions of this module will be made available as new releases of perl
are uploaded to CPAN.
FUNCTIONS
perl_tarballs
-
Takes one parameter, a
perl
version to search for. Returns an hashref on success orundef
otherwise.The returned hashref will have a key/value for each type of tarball. A key of
tar.gz
indicates the location of a gzipped tar file andtar.bz2
of a bzip2'd tar file. The values will be the relative path underauthors/id/
on CPAN where the indicated tarball will be located.perl_tarballs( '5.14.0' ); Returns a hashref like: { "tar.bz2" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.bz2", "tar.gz" => "J/JE/JESSE/perl-5.14.0.tar.gz" }
Not all
perl
releases hadtar.bz2
, but only atar.gz
.Perl tarballs may also be compressed using
xz
and therefore have atar.xz
entry. perl_versions
-
Returns the list of all the perl versions supported by the module in ascending order.
TRIAL
andRC
will be lower than an actual release. perl_pumpkins
-
Returns a sorted list of all PAUSE IDs of Perl pumpkins.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2024 by Chris Williams.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.