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NAME

MetaCPAN::API::Release - Distribution and releases information for MetaCPAN::API

VERSION

version 0.51

DESCRIPTION

This role provides MetaCPAN::API with fetching information about distribution and releases.

METHODS

release

    my $result = $mcpan->release( distribution => 'Moose' );

    # or
    my $result = $mcpan->release( author => 'DOY', release => 'Moose-2.0001' );

Searches MetaCPAN for a dist.

You can do complex searches using 'search' parameter:

    # example lifted from MetaCPAN docs
    my $result = $mcpan->release(
        search => {
            author => "OALDERS AND ",
            filter => "status:latest",
            fields => "name",
            size   => 1,
        },
    );

AUTHOR

Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Sawyer X.

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