CPAN::API::HOWTO3p

A recipe book for programming with cpan.pm

Recipes

All of these recipes assume that you have put "use CPAN" at the top of your program.

What distribution contains a particular module?

    my $distribution = CPAN::Shell->expand(
        "Module", "Data::UUID"
    )->distribution()->pretty_id();

This returns a string of the form "AUTHORID/TARBALL". If you want the full path and filename to this distribution on a CPAN mirror, then it is ".../authors/id/A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL".

What modules does a particular distribution contain?

    CPAN::Index->reload();
    my @modules = CPAN::Shell->expand(
        "Distribution", "JHI/Graph-0.83.tar.gz"
    )->containsmods();

You may also refer to a distribution in the form A/AU/AUTHORID/TARBALL.

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

5.0–5.3
5.4–5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8–5.9
6.0
6.1
6.2
6.3–6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9–7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7–7.8
7.9
8.0