NAME

App::DiffTarballs - Diff contents of two tarballs

VERSION

This document describes version 0.003 of App::DiffTarballs (from Perl distribution App-DiffTarballs), released on 2017-08-07.

SYNOPSIS

See the included script diff-tarballs.

FUNCTIONS

diff_tarballs

Usage:

 diff_tarballs(%args) -> [status, msg, result, meta]

Diff contents of two tarballs.

Examples:

• Show diff between two Perl releases:

   diff_tarballs(
     tarball1 => "My-Dist-1.001.tar.gz",
     tarball2 => "My-Dist-1.002.tar.bz2"
   );

This function is not exported.

Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):

• tarball1* => filename

• tarball2* => filename

Returns an enveloped result (an array).

First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (result) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.

Return value: (any)

ENVIRONMENT

DEBUG => bool

If set to true, will cause temporary directories to not being cleaned up after the program is done.

DIFF => str

Set diff command to use. Defaults to diff -ruN. For example, you can set it to diff --color -ruN (--color requires GNU diff 3.4 or later), or colordiff -ruN.

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/App-DiffTarballs.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-App-DiffTarballs.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=App-DiffTarballs

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2017 by perlancar@cpan.org.

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

cpanm App::DiffTarballs

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install App::DiffTarballs