NAME

Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl

SYNOPSIS

use Module::CoreList;

print $Module::CoreList::version{5.00503}{CPAN}; # prints 1.48

print Module::CoreList->first_release('File::Spec');       # prints 5.00503
print Module::CoreList->first_release('File::Spec', 0.82); # prints 5.006001

DESCRIPTION

Module::CoreList contains the hash of hashes %Module::CoreList::version, this is keyed on perl version as indicated in $]. The second level hash is module => version pairs.

Note, it is possible for the version of a module to be unspecified, whereby the value is undef, so use exists $version{$foo}{$bar} if that's what you're testing for.

CAVEATS

Module::CoreList currently only covers the 5.00405, 5.00503, 5.6.0, 5.6.1 and 5.7.3 releases of perl. Probing this information can be rather time consuming so patches are welcomed for earlier versions.

HISTORY

1.4 2nd April 2002

Bugfixes from Roland Bauer to allow the code to work under 5.004_04.

Using a cgi developed by Roland caught and fixed a number of bugs in the previous extraction of module names.

Rewrote the name extractor to be simpler.

Added data for the 5.004_05 and 5.6.0 releases of perl.

1.3 25th March 2002.

Initial CPAN release, covers 5.00503, 5.6.1 and 5.7.3

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

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

SEE ALSO

Module::Info, perl