MetaCP...bution(3pm)

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✨ NAME ✨

This is the MetaCPAN::Client::Distribution(3pm) page, bestie — it's the Perl doc for MetaCPAN::Client::Distribution, aka a Distribution data object. 🎀

💖 VERSION 💖

version 2.044000

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

my $dist = $mcpan->distribution('MetaCPAN-Client');

That's literally it. Grab a dist, get a whole cute little object back. 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It's a MetaCPAN distribution entity object. That's the whole vibe — one object, one distribution, all the info neatly packed up. ✨

🌈 ATTRIBUTES 🌈

💜 name

The distribution's name. iconic, honestly.

🍓 bugs

A hashref holding info about bugs reported across the various issue trackers. The top-level keys are issue tracker names like "rt" or "github". Each value is itself a hashref with the info about the bugs in that tracker. The keys vary between trackers, but this will always contain a "source" key, which is a URL for the tracker. There may also be keys containing counts such as "active", "closed", etc. 📊

🧚 river

A hashref containing "CPAN River" info about the distro — that's the thing at http://neilb.org/2015/04/20/river-of-cpan.html. The hashref contains these keys:

  • bucket

A positive or zero integer. The higher the number, the farther upstream this distribution is. 🌊

  • immediate

How many distributions directly depend on this one. no cap.

  • total

How many distributions depend on this one, directly or indirectly. the full ripple effect, fr fr.

💅 METHODS 💅

🎀 rt

Returns the hashref of data for the rt bug tracker. Defaults to an empty hashref if there's nothing there. 🫶

⭐ github

Returns the hashref of data for the github bug tracker. Also defaults to an empty hashref. 🙈

🔥 metacpan_url

Returns a link to the distribution page on MetaCPAN. slay.

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org>
  • Mickey Nasriachi <mickey@cpan.org>

This software is copyright (c) 2016 by Sawyer X.

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

ok bestie that's a wrap 🫶 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-07-05 — go forth and inspect some distributions, mwah 💋✨
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