NAME

module-version - Program to get module versions

SYNOPSIS

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

module-version Dancer
module-version --dev --full This That Another
module-version -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 module-version comes in.

OPTIONS

-f, --full

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

module-version -f ThisModule ThatModule
module-version --full ThisModule ThatModule

-i, --input FILE

This reads a list of modules from a file.

module-version -i my_modules.txt
module-version --input my_modules.txt

-d, --dev

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

module-version -d Test::More
module-version --dev Test::More

-q, --quiet

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

module-version -q This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does
module-version --quiet This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does

SEE ALSO

Module::Version

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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Sawyer X.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.