NAME

META::constants - distribution related constants from META info

SYNOPSIS

use META::constants $?DISTRIBUTION;

say NAME;
say DESCRIPTION;
say VERSION;
say API;
say AUTH;
say AUTHORS;
say SOURCE-URL;
say CREDITS;

DESCRIPTION

META::constants provides an easy way to access information in a module's META information. It is intended to be called inside the code of a module only, although anything that provides a .meta method, can be used.

EXPORTED CONSTANTS

NAME - the "name" field
DESCRIPTION - the "description" field
VERSION - the "version" field as a Version object
AUTH - the "auth" field
API - the "api" field
AUTHORS - the "authors" field, joined by ', '
SOURCE-URL - the "source-url" field with ".git" removed
CREDITS - a credit text created from above
META - the meta information hash itself

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen liz@raku.rocks

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/META-constants . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

If you like this module, or what I’m doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.