NAME

       Pinto - Curate a repository of Perl modules

VERSION

       version 0.14

SYNOPSIS

       See pinto to create and manage a Pinto repository.

       See pintod to allow remote access to your Pinto repository.

       See Pinto::Manual for more information about the Pinto tools.

       Stratopan <http://stratopan.com> for hosting your Pinto repository in the cloud.

DESCRIPTION

       Pinto is an application for creating and managing a custom CPAN-like repository of Perl
       modules.  The purpose of such a repository is to provide a stable, curated stack of
       dependencies from which you can reliably build, test, and deploy your application using
       the standard Perl tool chain. 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.

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.

       •   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).

       •   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.

       •   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.

       •   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.

       •   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.

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.

       •   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.

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.

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

CONTRIBUTORS

       •   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>

AUTHOR

       Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer <jeff@stratopan.com>

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.