Perl 5 version 24.3 documentation

CPAN::Meta::Merge

NAME

CPAN::Meta::Merge - Merging CPAN Meta fragments

VERSION

version 2.150005

SYNOPSIS

  1.  my $merger = CPAN::Meta::Merge->new(default_version => "2");
  2.  my $meta = $merger->merge($base, @additional);

DESCRIPTION

METHODS

new

This creates a CPAN::Meta::Merge object. It takes one mandatory named argument, version , declaring the version of the meta-spec that must be used for the merge. It can optionally take an extra_mappings argument that allows one to add additional merging functions for specific elements.

merge(@fragments)

Merge all @fragments together. It will accept both CPAN::Meta objects and (possibly incomplete) hashrefs of metadata.

AUTHORS

  • David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>

  • Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by David Golden and 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.