NAME

       Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::SortVersions - Plugin to sort candidates by most recent
       first

VERSION

       version 2.80

SYNOPSIS

        use alienfile;

        plugin 'Prefer::SortVersions';

DESCRIPTION

       Note: in most case you will want to use Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate instead.
       It picks the appropriate fetch plugin based on your platform and environment.  In some
       cases you may need to use this plugin directly instead.

       This Prefer plugin sorts the packages that were retrieved from a dir listing, either
       directly from a Fetch plugin, or from a Decode plugin.  It Returns a listing with the
       items sorted from post preferable to least, and filters out any undesirable candidates.

       This plugin updates the file list to include the versions that are extracted, so they can
       be used by other plugins, such as Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::BadVersion.

PROPERTIES

   filter
       This is a regular expression that lets you filter out files that you do not want to
       consider downloading.  For example, if the directory listing contained tarballs and readme
       files like this:

        foo-1.0.0.tar.gz
        foo-1.0.0.readme

       You could specify a filter of "qr/\.tar\.gz$/" to make sure only tarballs are considered
       for download.

   version
       Regular expression to parse out the version from a filename.  The regular expression
       should store the result in $1.  The default "qr/([0-9\.]+)/" is frequently reasonable.

SEE ALSO

       Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate, Alien::Build, alienfile, Alien::Build::MM,
       Alien

AUTHOR

       Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

       Contributors:

       Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

       Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

       Ilya Pavlov

       David Mertens (run4flat)

       Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

       Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

       Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

       Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

       mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

       Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

       Flavio Poletti (polettix)

       Salvador Fandiño (salva)

       Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

       Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

       Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

       Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

       Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

       Joel Berger (JBERGER)

       Petr Písař (ppisar)

       Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

       Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

       José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

       Duke Leto (LETO)

       Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

       Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

       Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

       Håkon Hægland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

       nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

       Florian Weimer

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

       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                                2023-1Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::SortVersions(3pm)