---
name: "Dist::Metadata::Tar"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "libdist-metadata-perl"
version: "0.927-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Dist::Metadata::Tar"
---

# Dist::Metadata::Tar(3pm)

Enable Dist::Metadata for tar files

## NAME

Dist::Metadata::Tar - Enable Dist::Metadata for tar files

## VERSION

version 0.927

## SYNOPSIS

```
  my $dist = Dist::Metadata->new(file => $path_to_archive);
```

## DESCRIPTION

This is a subclass of Dist::Metadata::Dist (actually of Dist::Metadata::Archive) to enable determining the metadata from a tar file.

This is probably the most useful subclass.

It's probably not very useful on it's own though, and should be used from "new" in Dist::Metadata.

## AUTHOR

Randy Stauner \<rwstauner@cpan.org\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Randy Stauner.

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