This is Perl library, PirObject.pm, which provides a simple way to model data objects.
The full documentation can be found in a plain text file inside the repository, in docs/PirObjectManual.txt.
There is little need for such a library in the modern programming world, it is here mostly as service to historical systems built using it.
This is a complete re-implementation of a software module called "PomObject.pm" that was originally written and used internally at Incyte Genomics (now Incyte Corporation) from 2000 to 2004. More history can be found in the documentation file PirObjectManual file.
The original distribution platform for this software was SourceForge; it can still be found there at https://sourceforge.net/projects/pirobject/ ; there is even a crummy project page at http://pirobject.sourceforge.net/ ! The code was maintained in CVS, but was converted to a GIT repository thanks to two fine piece of software:
- The excellent utility cvs2git
- Some of my own bash wrapper scripts for converting CVS to GIT.