NAME
Dist::Metadata::Archive - Base class for Dist::Metadata archive files
VERSION
version 0.927
SYNOPSIS
my $dist = Dist::Metadata->new(file => $path_to_archive);DESCRIPTION
This is a subclass of Dist::Metadata::Dist to enable determining the metadata from an archive file.
It is a base class for archive file formats:
It's not useful on it's own and should be used from "new" in Dist::Metadata.
METHODS
new
$dist = Dist::Metadata::Archive->new(file => $path);Accepts a single file argument that should be a path to a file.
If called from this base class new() will delegate to a subclass based on the filename and return a blessed instance of that subclass.
archive
Returns an object representing the archive file.
default_file_spec
Returns Unix since most archive files are be in unix format.
determine_name_and_version
Attempts to parse name and version from file name.
file
The file attribute passed to the constructor, used to load "archive".
read_archive
$dist->read_archive($file);Returns a format-specific object representing the specified file.
This must be defined by subclasses.
AUTHOR
Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Randy Stauner.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.