NAME

URI::cpan - URLs that refer to things on the CPAN

VERSION

version 1.009

SYNOPSIS

  use URI::cpan;

  my $uri = URI->new('cpan:///distfile/RJBS/URI-cpan-1.000.tar.gz');

  $uri->author;       # => RJBS
  $uri->dist_name;    # => URI-cpan
  $uri->dist_version; # => 1.000

Other forms of cpan: URI include:

  cpan:///author/RJBS

Reserved for likely future use are:

  cpan:///dist
  cpan:///module
  cpan:///package

PERL VERSION

This library should run on perls released even a long time ago. It should work on any version of perl released in the last five years.

Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

WARNINGS

URI objects are difficult to subclass, so I have not (yet?) taken the time to remove mutability from the objects. This means that you can probably alter a URI::cpan object into a state where it is no longer valid.

Please don't change the contents of these objects after construction.

SEE ALSO

URI::cpan::author and URI::cpan::distfile

THANKS

This code is derived from code written at Pobox.com by Hans Dieter Pearcey. Dieter helped thrash out this new implementation, too.

AUTHOR

Ricardo SIGNES <cpan@semiotic.systems>

CONTRIBUTOR

Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Ricardo SIGNES.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.