NAME
META::constants - distribution related constants from META info
SYNOPSIS
use META::constants $?DISTRIBUTION;
say NAME;
say DESCRIPTION;
say VERSION;
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
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
Copyright 2022 Elizabeth Mattijsen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.