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NAME

App::Midgen - Check requires & test_rerquires of your Package for CPAN inclusion.

VERSION

This document describes App::Midgen version: 0.16

SYNOPSIS

Change to the root of your package and run

midgen

Now with a Getopt --help or -?

midgen -?

See midgen for cmd line option info.

DESCRIPTION

This is an aid to present a packages module requirements by scanning the package, then displaying in a familiar format with the current version number from MetaCPAN.

This started out as a way of generating the core for a Module::Install::DSL Makefile.PL, why DSL because it's nice and clean, so now you can generate the contents and check when you want, yes it's another PPI powered app.

All output goes to STDOUT, so you can use it as you see fit.

MetaCPAN Version Number Displayed

  • NN.nnnnnn we got the current version number from MetaCPAN (numify).

  • 'core' indicates the module is a perl core module.

  • '!mcpan' must be local, one of yours. Not in MetaCPAN, Not in core.

Food for thought, if we update our Modules, don't we want our users to use the current version, so should we not by default do the same with others Modules. Thus we always show the current version number, regardless.

We also display some other info to complement the modules we have found.

For more info and sample output see wiki

METHODS

  • degree_separation

    now a seperate Method, returns an integer.

  • find_required_modules

    Search for Includes use and require in package modules

  • find_required_test_modules

    Search for Includes use and require in test scripts, also use_ok, plus some other patterns along the way.

  • first_package_name

    Assume first package found is your packages name

  • get_module_version

    side affect of re-factoring, helps with code readability

  • min_version

    Uses Perl::MinimumVersion to find the minimum version of your package by taking a quick look, note this is not a full scan, suggest you use perlver for a full scan.

  • mod_in_dist

    Check if module is in a distribution and use that version number, rather than 'undef'

  • remove_noisy_children

    Parent A::B has noisy Children A::B::C and A::B::D all with same version number.

  • remove_twins

    Twins E::F::G and E::F::H have a parent E::F with same version number, so we add a parent E::F and re-test for noisy children, catching triplets along the way.

  • run

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

App::Midgen requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

App::Midgen::Roles, App::Midgen::Output,

INCOMPATIBILITIES

After some reflection, we do not scan xt/... as the methods by which the modules are Included are various, this is best left to the module Author.

WARNINGS

As our mantra is to show the current version of a module, we do this by asking MetaCPAN directly so we are going to need to connect to http://api.metacpan.org/v0/.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to through the web interface at https://github.com/kevindawson/App-Midgen/issues. If reporting a Bug, also supply the Module info, midgen failed against.

AUTHOR

Kevin Dawson <bowtie@cpan.org>

CONTRIBUTORS

Ahmad M. Zawawi <ahmad.zawawi@gmail.com>

Matt S. Trout <mst@shadowcat.co.uk>

Tommy Butler <ace@tommybutler.me>

Neil Bowers <neilb@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 the App:Midgen "AUTHOR" and "CONTRIBUTORS" as listed above.

LICENSE

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

SEE ALSO

Perl::PrereqScanner, Module::Install::DSL,

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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