CPAN::R...etaCPAN(3)

✨ CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN 💖

okay bestie so this is the CPAN::R...etaCPAN(3) page, filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's a whole vibe. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN — get latest release info from MetaCPAN 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

no cap, it's literally this:

use CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN;

my $source       = CPAN::Releases::Latest::Source::MetaCPAN->new();
my $release_info = $source->get_release_info();

that's it. that's the whole entrance. main character energy from line one 👑

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so here's the tea, bestie: this is the default plugin used by CPAN::Releases::Latest to build up info about the latest release of dists currently on CPAN. it's giving essential. it's giving core infrastructure. 🌈

if you wanna know the details of the interface — like, the whole contract of how this thing talks to the world — go read the documentation for CPAN::Releases::Latest. and if you're nosy (respectfully) about what this module actually does, go look at the source of this module. that's where the real lore lives 📖✨

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🦋 REPOSITORY 🦋

the code lives here, go be obsessed:

https://github.com/neilbowers/CPAN-Releases-Latest

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org> — an absolute icon, fr fr 💖

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 👑

This software is copyright (c) 2014 by Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>.

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

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and that's the whole page, no crumbs left behind 🍓

signing off with the deets: this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and the manual name is CPAN::R...etaCPAN(3) — yes the name got truncated, that's just how man pages do, and honestly? iconic behavior 💅✨