Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::Negotiate

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Updated: 2019-04-22
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NAME

Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::Negotiate - Extraction negotiation plugin

VERSION

version 1.67

SYNOPSIS

 use alienfile;
 plugin 'Extract' => (
   format => 'tar.gz',
 );

DESCRIPTION

This is a negotiator plugin for extracting packages downloaded from the internet. This plugin picks the best Extract plugin to do the actual work. Which plugins are picked depend on the properties you specify, your platform and environment. It is usually preferable to use a negotiator plugin rather than using a specific Extract Plugin from your alienfile.

PROPERTIES

format

The expected format for the download. Possible values include: "tar", "tar.gz", "tar.bz2", "tar.xz", "zip", "d".

METHODS

pick

 my $name = Alien::Build::Plugin::Extract::Negotiate->pick($format);

Returns the name of the best plugin for the given format.

AUTHOR

Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

Contributors:

Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

Roy Storey

Ilya Pavlov

David Mertens (run4flat)

Mark Nunberg (mordy, mnunberg)

Christian Walde (Mithaldu)

Brian Wightman (MidLifeXis)

Zaki Mughal (zmughal)

mohawk (mohawk2, ETJ)

Vikas N Kumar (vikasnkumar)

Flavio Poletti (polettix)

Salvador Fandiño (salva)

Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

Kang-min Liu (劉康民, gugod)

Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

Juan Julián Merelo Guervós (JJ)

Joel Berger (JBERGER)

Petr Pisar (ppisar)

Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

José Joaquín Atria (JJATRIA)

Duke Leto (LETO)

Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.