NAME

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

VERSION

       version 1.008

SYNOPSIS

         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

PERL VERSION

       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.

WARNINGS

       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       into a state where it is no longer valid.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.

SEE ALSO

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

THANKS

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

AUTHOR

       Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       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.