CPAN::META::FEATURE(3pm)

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version 5.42.3 · 8 versions
, in alpine 3.24

🌸 CPAN::Meta::Feature 🌸

okay bestie so this is a page from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide — yes that one — and today's main character is CPAN::Meta::Feature 💅

✨ VERSION ✨

version 2.150010 — that's the vibe check, and she passed 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So like. A CPAN::Meta::Feature object is literally just a lil descriptor for an optional feature that a CPAN distribution offers 🦋 — and that feature gets specified inside the distribution's META.json file (or META.yml, for the old-school girlies, no cap).

And like, for the most part? This class is lowkey shy 🙈 — she only really shows up when you're operating on the result of the "feature" or "features" methods on a CPAN::Meta object. That's her whole social circle. That's the group chat. iykyk.

🧚 METHODS 🧚

💅 new

my $feature = CPAN::Meta::Feature->new( $identifier => \%spec );

This returns a new Feature object ✨ (she's brand new, she's fresh, she's giving main character energy 👑).

The %spec argument you hand to the constructor should be the same as the value of the "optional_feature" entry in the distmeta — like, don't get creative with it, bestie. And it must contain entries for "description" and "prereqs". Those two are non-negotiable. Periodt. 🔥

🦋 identifier

This method returns the feature's identifier. Simple. Iconic. She ate. 💜

🌸 description

This method returns the feature's long description — like the full paragraph version, not the lil bio. 🌈

⭐ prereqs

This method returns the feature's prerequisites as a CPAN::Meta::Prereqs object 🎯 — so cute, so structured, so ready for your dependency-resolution era.

💀 BUGS 💀

Please report any bugs or feature requests using the CPAN Request Tracker, bestie 🙏 — bugs can be submitted through the web interface right here:

<http://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=CPAN-Meta>

And 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 😭 — genuinely, this is the difference between "slay, fixed" and "…what". help us help you 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
  • Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>
  • Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

three absolute legends, fr fr 💜

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by David Golden, Ricardo Signes, Adam Kennedy and Contributors.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself 🌈 — go forth, remix, redistribute, it's giving generous.

and that's the whole page, bestie — mwah 💋

okay so the footer vibes: this is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-11-03, and the whole thing comes to you from CPAN::Meta::Feature(3pm). literally that's it, ily, bye 🎀✨

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