Distribution Format

  # distribution-version.extension
  my ($dist,$ver,$ext) = (/(.+)\-(\d.*)(\.(?:tar\.(?:gz|bz2)|tgz|zip))/);

• Format supported by installers and other reporting tools (WWW-CPAN-Testers)
• .tar.bz2 is not currently supported by the installers
• .ppm.tar.gz, .par and other non-source based distributions are ignored