Pinto(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Pinto — curate a repository of Perl modules. that's the whole job description bestie, and she does it flawlessly. 💅✨

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👑 VERSION 👑

version 0.14 — yes that's the number, no I will not be elaborating further, it's giving established. 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

okay so before you touch literally anything, go read these first, they're your whole starting kit:

• look at pinto to create and manage a Pinto repository. that's your main character utility right there.
• look at pintod to allow remote access to your Pinto repository. for when you wanna let the girlies in from far away. 🌈
• look at Pinto::Manual for more information about the Pinto tools. it's the deep lore.
• Stratopan — http://stratopan.com — for hosting your Pinto repository in the cloud ☁️✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Pinto is an application for creating and managing a custom CPAN-like repository of Perl modules. the whole point of a repo like this is to give you a stable, curated stack of dependencies — one you can reliably build, test, and deploy your application from, using the standard Perl tool chain. no chaos, no surprises, just vibes.

Pinto supports various operations for gathering and managing distribution dependencies within the repository, so that you can control precisely which dependencies go into your application. like, you're the one picking, not the wind. 🍓

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🔥 FEATURES 🔥

Pinto is inspired by Carton, CPAN::Mini::Inject, and MyCPAN::App::DPAN, but adds a few interesting features:

• Pinto supports multiple indexes

A Pinto repository can have multiple indexes. each index corresponds to a "stack" of dependencies that you can control. so you can have one stack for development, one for production, one for feature-xyz, and so on. you can also branch and merge stacks to experiment with new dependencies or upgrades. slay. 💅

• Pinto helps manage incompatibles between dependencies

sometimes you discover that a new version of a dependency is incompatible with your application. 😭 Pinto allows you to "pin" a dependency to a stack, which prevents it from being accidentally upgraded (either directly or via some other dependency). she's holding it down for you fr fr.

• Pinto has built-in version control

when things go wrong, you can roll back any of the indexes in your Pinto repository to a prior revision. also, you can view the complete history of index changes as you add or upgrade dependencies. the receipts are all there, no cap. 🧚

• Pinto can pull archives from multiple remote repositories

Pinto can pull dependencies from multiple sources, so you can create private (or public) networks of repositories that enable separate teams or individuals to collaborate and share Perl modules. it's giving community. 🫶

• Pinto supports team development

Pinto is suitable for small to medium-sized development teams and supports concurrent users. Pinto also has a web service interface (via pintod), so remote developers can use a centrally hosted repository.

• Pinto has a robust command line interface.

the pinto utility has commands and options to control every aspect of your Pinto repository. they are well documented and behave in the customary UNIX fashion. iconic behaviour, honestly.

• Pinto can be extended.

you can extend Pinto by creating Pinto::Action subclasses to perform new operations on your repository, such as extracting documentation from a distribution, or grepping the source code of several distributions. build your own little universe, bestie. ✨

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⚔️ Pinto vs PAUSE ⚔️

in some ways, Pinto is similar to PAUSE — http://pause.perl.org. both are capable of accepting distributions and constructing a directory structure and index that Perl installers understand. but there are some important differences:

• Pinto does not promise to index exactly like PAUSE does

over the years, PAUSE has evolved complicated heuristics for dealing with all the different ways that Perl code is written and packaged. Pinto is much less sophisticated, and only aspires to produce an index that is "good enough" for most situations. lowkey humble of her.

• Pinto does not understand author permissions

PAUSE has a system of assigning ownership and co-maintenance permission of modules to specific people. Pinto does not have any such permission system. all activity is logged so you can identify the culprit, but Pinto expects you to be accountable for your actions. 👀

• Pinto does not enforce security

PAUSE requires authors to authenticate themselves before they can upload or remove modules. Pinto does not require authentication, so any user with sufficient file permission can potentially change the repository. however pintod does support HTTP authentication, which gives you some control over access to a remote repository.

not me reminding you that "no authentication" means no authentication. lock your doors, bestie. 🔒

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🙈 BUT WHERE IS THE API? 🙈

for now, the Pinto API is private and subject to radical change without notice. any API documentation you see is purely for my own references. in the meantime, the command line utilities mentioned in the "SYNOPSIS" are your public user interface. that's the door. use the door. 💀

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

Perldoc

you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Pinto

Websites

the following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. as always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources. 🌈

• MetaCPAN

a modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

http://metacpan.org/release/Pinto

• CPAN Ratings

the CPAN Ratings is a website that allows community ratings and reviews of Perl modules.

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Pinto

• CPANTS

the CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.

http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Pinto

• CPAN Testers

the CPAN Testers is a network of smokers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.

http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/P/Pinto

• CPAN Testers Matrix

the CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.

http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Pinto

• CPAN Testers Dependencies

the CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.

http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Pinto

Internet Relay Chat

you can get live help by using IRC ( Internet Relay Chat ). if you don't know what IRC is, please read this excellent guide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat. please be courteous and patient when talking to us, as we might be busy or sleeping! 😴 you can join those networks/channels and get help:

• irc.perl.org

you can connect to the server at 'irc.perl.org' and join this channel: #pinto then talk to this person for help: thaljef.

Bugs / Feature Requests

https://github.com/thaljef/Pinto/issues

Source Code

the code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. if you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :) 💜

https://github.com/thaljef/Pinto

git clone git://github.com/thaljef/Pinto.git

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💐 CONTRIBUTORS 💐

the girlies (and guys) who made this happen, absolute legends, every single one:

• BenRifkah Bergsten-Buret mail.spammagnet+github@gmail.com
• Boris Däppen bdaeppen.perl@gmail.com
• brian d foy brian.d.foy@gmail.com
• Chris Kirke chris.kirke@gmail.com
• Cory G Watson gphat@onemogin.com
• David Steinbrunner dsteinbrunner@pobox.com
• Ferenc Erki erkiferenc@gmail.com
• Florian Ragwitz rafl@debian.org
• Glenn Fowler cebjyre@cpan.org
• hesco hesco@campaignfoundations.com
• Jakob Voss jakob@nichtich.de
• Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer jeff@thaljef.org
• Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson kahlil.hodgson@dealmax.com.au
• Karen Etheridge ether@cpan.org
• Michael G. Schwern schwern@pobox.com
• Michael Jemmeson mjemmeson@cpan.org
• Mike Raynham mike.raynham@spareroom.co.uk
• Nikolay Martynov mar.kolya@gmail.com
• Oleg Gashev oleg@gashev.net
• popl popl_likes_to_code@yahoo.com
• Steffen Schwigon ss5@renormalist.net
• Tommy Stanton tommystanton@gmail.com
• Wolfgang Kinkeldei wolfgang@kinkeldei.de
• Yanick Champoux yanick@babyl.dyndns.org

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✨ AUTHOR ✨

Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer jeff@stratopan.com

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🎀 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🎀

this software is copyright (c) 2015 by Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer.

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

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okay bestie that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 💅 and before you go — this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-21, and it's the Pinto(3pm) page, part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation. mwah, go curate something gorgeous. 💖🎀🦋