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    my $cpanid    = $d->cpanid;    # "GBARR"
    my $distvname = $d->distvname; # "CPAN-DistnameInfo-0.02"
    my $extension = $d->extension; # "tar.gz"
    my $pathname  = $d->pathname;  # "authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/..."
  
    my %prop = $d->properties;
  
  =head1 DESCRIPTION
  
  Many online services that are centered around CPAN attempt to
  associate multiple uploads by extracting a distribution name from
  the filename of the upload. For most distributions this is easy as
  they have used ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build to create the
  distribution, which results in a uniform name. But sadly not all
  uploads are created in this way.
  
  C<CPAN::DistnameInfo> uses heuristics that have been learnt by
  L<http://search.cpan.org/> to extract the distribution name and
  version from filenames and also report if the version is to be
  treated as a developer release
  
  The constructor takes a single pathname, returning an object with the following methods
  
  =over