CPAN::Unpack - Unpack CPAN distributions
use CPAN::Unpack; my $u = CPAN::Unpack->new; $u->cpan("path/to/CPAN/"); $u->destination("cpan_unpacked/"); $u->quiet(1); $u->unpack;
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.
Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>
Copyright (C) 2004-8, Leon Brocard 2012, Dennis Kaarsemaker
This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install CPAN::Unpack, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm CPAN::Unpack
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install CPAN::Unpack
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.