Alien::Brotli(3)

💖 Alien::Brotli — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, you found the page for Alien::Brotli, which lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of your man pages. it's man page section 3, iykyk. grab a snack, we're doing this. 🍓

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✨ NAME ✨

Alien::Brotli</puruple> — literally just: download and install the Brotli compressor. that's the whole job. slay. 💅

🎀 VERSION 🎀

version v0.2.2

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so this distribution's whole personality is installing brotli so that other distributions can use it. it's giving helpful friend energy, fr fr.

here's the plan, no cap: first it tries to detect an existing installation. if it finds one? obsessed — it just uses that one, no drama. but if there's nothing there? then it goes and downloads the source from the official git repository and installs it in a private share location, all for the use of other modules. very main character of it.

🌸 METHODS 🌸

👑 exe

this one returns the path to the brotli executable, as a Path::Tiny object. that's it, that's the method. iconic.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• <https://github.com/google/brotli>

💜 SOURCE 💜

the development version is on github at <https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Alien-Brotli> and may be cloned from <git://github.com/robrwo/perl-Alien-Brotli.git>

🙈 BUGS 🙈

please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <https://github.com/robrwo/perl-Alien-Brotli/issues>

when you submit a bug or a request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or the desired feature. like, actually include it, bestie — it helps so much 😭

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Robert Rothenberg <rrwo@cpan.org>

🫶 CONTRIBUTOR 🫶

Michal Josef Špaček <skim@cpan.org>

💅 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 💅

this software is Copyright (c) 2022 by Robert Rothenberg.

this is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

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and that's the whole page, bestie! 🧚 it's documenting Alien::Brotli (3) from perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-10-26. go forth and compress, you absolute icon. ✨🔥