MODULE-FAKER(1)

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version 0.027 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 MODULE-FAKER(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and today's main character is module-faker — a little script that fakes up CPAN distributions using Module::Faker. yes, for real. no cap. it's giving "I made this whole dist in my head and now it's on disk". 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

module-faker — fake up CPAN distributions with Module::Faker.

like. that's the whole gig. it builds you pretend-CPAN-dists. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌸 VERSION 🌸

version 0.027

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

module-faker [-s|--src STR] [-d|--dest STR] [-p|--author-dir]

that's it. three little flags and you're off. slay. 💅

🌈 PERL VERSION 🌈

ok so this module should work on any version of perl still receiving updates from the Perl 5 Porters. literally what that means: it should work on any version of perl released in the last two to three years. (like, if the most recently released version is v5.40, then this module should work on both v5.40 and v5.38.) 🫶

⚠️ and here's the fine print, bestie: although it may work on older versions of perl, there is no guarantee that the minimum required version will not be increased. the version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl. so don't come for her about your perl 5.8, okay? 😭

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -s STR, --src STR — the source directory. the place she's reading from. the origin story. ✨
  • -d STR, --dest STR — the destination directory. where the fake dists get dropped off. 📦
  • -p, --author-dir — write dists into A/U/AUTHOR dirs. yes, the classic CPAN author-directory layout, you know the one. 👑

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

Ricardo Signes <cpan@semiotic.systems>

This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Ricardo Signes.

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

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓

this was perl v5.42.0 documentation, dated 2025-07-25, and yes you just read the MODULE-FAKER(1) page. go fake a distribution, you absolute icon. 🌟💜
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