Module-Format - perform bulk operations on Perl modules

Module-Format aims to simplify installing a large number of Perl modules (or their associated CPAN distributions) which are often stringified into various different formats in the Perl world. It can handle all of these format, including input from heterogeneous formats.

The strings of Perl 5 modules are often gives in various formats. One can see things like:

• Foo::Bar::Baz

• Foo-Bar-Baz

• perl(Foo::Bar::Baz)

• perl-Foo-Bar-Baz

• Foo/Bar/Baz.pm

• libfoo-bar-baz-perl

Module-Format can input from most of them and output to all of them.

Use Cases

apt-get

To install a group of modules using apt-get on Debian, Ubuntu, etc. define the following shell function:

up()
{
    apt-get -y install $(perlmf as_deb "$@")
}

Then you can type invocations like up XML::RSS XML-LibXML DBIx/Class.pm (note the inconsistency in the parameters.) to install Perl modules.

urpmi

To install a group of modules using urpmi on Mandriva Linux, define the following shell function.

up()
{
    urpmi --auto $(perlmf as_rpm_colon "$@")
}

Then you can type invocations like up XML::RSS XML-LibXML DBIx/Class.pm (note the inconsistency in the parameters.) to install Perl modules.

Project Links

For Module-Format

• Module-Format on search.cpan.org - download and more information.
• Module-Format on kobesearch
• BitBucket.org Mercurial repository - contains the history of the code, the version control source code, and other resources.
• Freecode Record - FILL IN

Licence

Module-Format is licensed under the MIT/X11 licence

News

Blog Posts About Module-Format

• “Introducing Module-Format” - on Shlomi Fish’s Technical Blog.