NAME

Test::Prereq - check if Makefile.PL has the right pre-requisites

SYNOPSIS

use Test::Prereq;

prereq_ok();

DESCRIPTION

THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE. IT HAS SOME PROBLEMS.

The prereq_ok() function examines the modules it finds in blib/lib/ and the test files it finds in t/. It figures out which modules they use, skips the modules that are in the Perl core, and compares the remaining list of modules to those in the PREREQ_PM section of Makefile.PL.

Your Makefile.PL must end in a true value since prereq_ok() has to require() it to perform a bit of magic. Not to worry---it will tell you when you don't.

FUNCTIONS

prereq_ok( [ VERSION, [ NAME ] ] )

If you don't specify a version, prereq_ok assumes you want to compare the list of prerequisite modules to version 5.6.1.

Valid version come from Module::CoreList (which uses $[):

5.008
5.00307
5.00405
5.00503
5.007003
5.004
5.005
5.006
5.006001

TO DO

* skip the modules included in the distribution. at the moment I skip things that match the string in NAME in WriteMakefile and I don't think that's a good solution.

* figure out which modules depend on others, and then apply that to what i see in the PREREQ_PM.

AUTHOR

brian d foy, <bdfoy@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2002, brian d foy, All Rights Reserved.

You may use, modify, and distribute this package under the same terms as Perl itself.