Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::SortVersions(3)
                                           User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME
       Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::SortVersions - Plugin to sort candidates
       by most recent first

VERSION
       version 2.80

SYNOPSIS
        use alienfile;

        plugin 'Prefer::SortVersions';

DESCRIPTION
       Note: in most case you will want to use
       Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate instead.  It picks the
       appropriate fetch plugin based on your platform and environment.  In
       some cases you may need to use this plugin directly instead.

       This Prefer plugin sorts the packages that were retrieved from a dir
       listing, either directly from a Fetch plugin, or from a Decode plugin.
       It Returns a listing with the items sorted from post preferable to
       least, and filters out any undesirable candidates.

       This plugin updates the file list to include the versions that are
       extracted, so they can be used by other plugins, such as
       Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::BadVersion.

PROPERTIES
   filter
       This is a regular expression that lets you filter out files that you do
       not want to consider downloading.  For example, if the directory
       listing contained tarballs and readme files like this:

        foo-1.0.0.tar.gz
        foo-1.0.0.readme

       You could specify a filter of "qr/\.tar\.gz$/" to make sure only
       tarballs are considered for download.

   version
       Regular expression to parse out the version from a filename.  The
       regular expression should store the result in $1.  The default
       "qr/([0-9\.]+)/" is frequently reasonable.

SEE ALSO
       Alien::Build::Plugin::Download::Negotiate, Alien::Build, alienfile,
       Alien::Build::MM, Alien

AUTHOR
       Author: Graham Ollis <plicease@cpan.org>

       Contributors:

       Diab Jerius (DJERIUS)

       Roy Storey (KIWIROY)

       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 Fandino (salva)

       Gianni Ceccarelli (dakkar)

       Pavel Shaydo (zwon, trinitum)

       Kang-min Liu (<?><?><?>, gugod)

       Nicholas Shipp (nshp)

       Juan Julian Merelo Guervos (JJ)

       Joel Berger (JBERGER)

       Petr Pisar (ppisar)

       Lance Wicks (LANCEW)

       Ahmad Fatoum (a3f, ATHREEF)

       Jose Joaquin Atria (JJATRIA)

       Duke Leto (LETO)

       Shoichi Kaji (SKAJI)

       Shawn Laffan (SLAFFAN)

       Paul Evans (leonerd, PEVANS)

       Hakon Haegland (hakonhagland, HAKONH)

       nick nauwelaerts (INPHOBIA)

       Florian Weimer

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       This software is copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Graham Ollis.

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

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-25
                                 Alien::Build::Plugin::Prefer::SortVersions(3)