perl.md

Perl Analysis

Strategy	Direct Deps	Transitive Deps	Edges	Classifies Dev Dependencies	Container Scanning
`*META.{yml, json}	✅	✅	❌	✅	✅

Project Discovery

Find a file named MYMETA.json, MYMETA.yml, META.json, or META.yml.

Analysis

1. Parse MYMETA.{yml, json} or META.{yml, json} to identify dependencies.

Limitation

• Dependency required for runtime only will be reported.
• Reported analysis will not have any edges.

Example

1. Build your perl target. When you do this, you should have MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json.
2. Execute fossa analyze -o on the project to print analyzed dependency graphing (this will not upload any analysis to any endpoint)

FAQ

How do I only perform analysis for Perl?

Explicitly specify an analysis target in .fossa.yml file. The example below excludes all other analysis targets:

# .fossa.yml 

version: 3
targets:
  only:
    - type: perl