NAME

mversion - Program for querying Perl module versions

VERSION

version 0.201

SYNOPSIS

This program shows you the version of a module or several modules, in a comfortable manner.

mversion Dancer
mversion --dev --full This That Another
mversion -q -i modules.txt

In Perl-world, we have many ways to determine a version of a module. You can run perl -MModule -le'print $Module::Version', but once the name is very long it becomes tiresome to write.

We can try to load the module in a specific version that is (hopefully) greater than what we already have installed (if at all). That way we purposely inflict an error on the compiler and try to read the error msg. perl -MModule\ 9999. This does not work on multiple modules at once. Some modules even have long version numbers, such as a date, and then you need to run perl -MModule\ 9999999999 which is seriously annoying.

There are a few modules out there that get you the version number of other modules but none of them are applications, nor do they have enough options for comfortable day-to-day usage. This is where mversion comes in.

OPTIONS

-f, --full

This outputs both the name and the version of module, instead of just the version number.

mversion -f ThisModule ThatModule
mversion --full ThisModule ThatModule

-I, --include DIRECTORY, -I MORE, -I EVENMORE

This lets you add any number of directories to include when trying to get a version number. This is very helpful when you're trying to check if the version of a module in a specific folder is different than the default one.

# get the version of ThisModule
mversion ThisModule

# get the version of ThisModule from directory dev_releases
mversion -I dev_releases ThisModule

You can include more directories by repeating the flag and argument again. There is no limit to how many directories you can include.

-i, --input FILE

This reads a list of modules from a file.

mversion -i my_modules.txt
mversion --input my_modules.txt

-l, --local-lib DIR

Includes the local::lib DIR in the module paths.

-d, --dev

This shows the developer versions (0.01_01) just as that instead of eval()ing them.

mversion -d Test::More
mversion --dev Test::More

-q, --quiet

Usually if a module does not exist, mversion will warn about it. This allows you to silent those warnings and just carry on.

mversion -q This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does
mversion --quiet This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does

SEE ALSO

Module::Version

Github page at http://github.com/xsawyerx/module-version.

AUTHOR

Sawyer X

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010-2018 by Sawyer X.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.