NAME

Dist::Metadata::Archive - Base class for Dist::Metadata archive files

VERSION

version 0.927

  my $dist = Dist::Metadata->new(file => $path_to_archive);

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.

  $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.

Returns "Unix" since most archive files are be in unix format.

Attempts to parse name and version from file name.

The "file" attribute passed to the constructor, used to load "archive".

  $dist->read_archive($file);

Returns a format-specific object representing the specified file.

This must be defined by subclasses.

Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>

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