URI::cpan - URLs that refer to things on the CPAN

       Ricardo SIGNES <cpan@semiotic.systems>

       Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

       This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Ricardo SIGNES.

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

perl v5.36.0                                       2023-10-05                                     URI::cpan(3pm)

       URI::cpan - URLs that refer to things on the CPAN

       This library should run on perls released even a long time ago.  It should work on any version of perl
       released in the last five years.

       Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version
       will not be increased.  The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches
       will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

       URI::cpan::author and URI::cpan::distfile

         use URI::cpan;

         my $uri = URI->new('cpan:///distfile/RJBS/URI-cpan-1.000.tar.gz');

         $uri->author;       # => RJBS
         $uri->dist_name;    # => URI-cpan
         $uri->dist_version; # => 1.000

       Other forms of cpan: URI include:

         cpan:///author/RJBS

       Reserved for likely future use are:

         cpan:///dist
         cpan:///module
         cpan:///package

       This code is derived from code written at Pobox.com by Hans Dieter Pearcey.  Dieter helped thrash out
       this new implementation, too.

       version 1.009

       URI objects are difficult to subclass, so I have not (yet?) taken the time to remove mutability from the
       objects.  This means that you can probably alter a URI::cpan object into a state where it is no longer
       valid.

       Please don't change the contents of these objects after construction.