The CPAN Monitor will send details about the distributions released in the last 24 hours and filtered according to various rules. Each such rule-set is called a "subscription".
(These are some old plans that were never implemented.)
Each user can have several "subscriptions".
Each "subscription" has a "title" that will be used in the subject line of the e-mail for easy identification of the monitor.
Each "subscription" has one or more of the following rules:
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all - (True/False.) All the recently uploaded distributions. Probably the same as the recent on MetaCPAN.
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unique - (True/False.) Filter the distribution to include each one only once. (In case more than one version was uploaded recently.)
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new - (True/False.) This is the first time the distribution was released. MetaCPAN also provides this.
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modules - (A list of module names.) Include distributions that provide any of the listed modules.
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author - (A list of PAUSE ids.) Include distributions released by any of the given authors.
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partials - (A list of regexes.) Any disribution where either the distribution name or any of the provided modules match the given regex. The regex can currently use
^
and$
anchors and anything mathching [a-zA-Z0-9].
Use cases
- Monitor modules you use for updates
- Monitor all the modules that match
^Test