Alien::...ownload(3)

πŸ’– Alien::Build::Plugin::Download(3) πŸ’–

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for Alien::Build::Plugin::Download, straight outta the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. pull up a chair, grab a boba, we're doing this πŸ§‹βœ¨


✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.88 πŸŽ€ (yes she's got a version, she's established)


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's the vibe, literally just look at it:

use alienfile
share {
  start_url 'http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make';
  plugin 'Download';
};

that's it. that's the whole mood. πŸ’…


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so Download plugins download packages from the internet. that's the whole job. they go out there, they grab the tarball, they bring it home. main character energy fr fr 🌈

and then we got this one in the lineup:

  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate

(that's a plugin name, don't come for me, I'm just reporting what the page says πŸ‘‘)


πŸŽ€ SEE ALSO πŸŽ€

go read these too, they're iconic:

  • Alien::Build
  • Alien::Build::Plugin

πŸ’œ AUTHOR πŸ’œ

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

  • Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)
  • Roy Storey (KIWIROY)
  • Ilya Pavlov
  • David Mertens (run4flat)
  • Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)
  • Christian Walde (Mithaldu)
  • Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)
  • Zaki Mughal (zmughal)
  • mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)
  • Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)
  • Flavio Poletti (polettix)
  • Salvador FandiΓ±o (salva)
  • Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)
  • Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)
  • Kang-min Liu (εŠ‰εΊ·ζ°‘, gugod)
  • Nicholas Shipp (nshp)
  • Juan JuliΓ‘n Merelo GuervΓ³s (JJ)
  • Joel Berger (JBERGER)
  • Petr PΓ­saΕ™ (ppisar)
  • Lance Wicks (LANCEW)
  • Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)
  • JosΓ© JoaquΓ­n Atria (JJATRIA)
  • Duke Leto (LETO)
  • Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)
  • Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)
  • Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)
  • HΓ₯kon HΓ¦gland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)
  • nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)
  • Florian Weimer
  • Marcel Telka (mtelka)

look at that list. an entire ensemble cast. everyone ate. 🫢πŸ”₯


This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

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

no cap, that's the actual license situation β€” same terms as Perl 5 itself, so go forth and remix responsibly 🧚

and that's the whole page bestie, you're free πŸ’– this ran under perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-09-21, and yeah the title got chopped up in the header as Alien::...ownload(3) but we all know who she is πŸ’…βœ¨ bye pookie πŸŽ€

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