pm-metainfo - dump meta info from a perl module
pm-metainfo perl-module-distfile.tar.gz
This is a demonstrator program which simply dumps a description of all it can work out about a perl module to stdout. It could be used for more interesting things, but normally a different program which interfaces Module::MetaInfo.pm would be written instead.
The output of this program can also be read from and parsed directly for use in shell scripts.
This option tells pm-metainfo to use filename as the file where the uncompressed machine readable version of the modules list is stored (normally distributed as 03modlist.data.gz). When this is activated extra meta information will be provided where available.
pm-metainfo
filename
03modlist.data.gz
this option turns on debugging information
This program is copyright to Michael De La Rue and is distributed under the General Public License. If you would like to use parts of this program in developing perl then please contact the author who will almost certainly be willing to relicense those parts under the same terms as perl its self.
You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
Module::MetaInfo
To install Module::MetaInfo, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Module::MetaInfo
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Module::MetaInfo
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.