This is a sister module of Parse::PMFile. This module parses local
.pm files (and a META file if any) in a specific (current if not
specified) directory, and returns a hash reference that represents
"provides" information (with some extra meta data). This is almost
the same as Module::Metadata does (which has been in Perl core since
Perl 5.13.9). The main difference is the most of the code of this
module is directly taken from the PAUSE code as of June 2013. If you
need better compatibility to PAUSE, try this. If you need better
performance, safety, or portability in general, Module::Metadata may
be a better and handier option (Parse::PMFile (and thus
Parse::LocalDistribution) actually evaluates code in the $VERSION line
(in a Safe compartment), which may be problematic in some cases).
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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This is a sister module of Parse::PMFile. This module parses local
.pm files (and a META file if any) in a specific (current if not
specified) directory, and returns a hash reference that represents
"provides" information (with some extra meta data). This is almost
the same as Module::Metadata does (which has been in Perl core since
Perl 5.13.9). The main difference is the most of the code of this
module is directly taken from the PAUSE code as of June 2013. If you
need better compatibility to PAUSE, try this. If you need better
performance, safety, or portability in general, Module::Metadata may
be a better and handier option (Parse::PMFile (and thus
Parse::LocalDistribution) actually evaluates code in the $VERSION line
(in a Safe compartment), which may be problematic in some cases).
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Parse-LocalDistribution/
