NAME¶

Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5 - scan for core Perl 5 language indicators of required modules

VERSION¶

version 1.020

DESCRIPTION¶

This scanner will look for the following indicators:

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plain lines beginning with "use", "require", or "no" in your perl modules and scripts, including minimum perl version

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regular inheritance declared with the "base" and "parent" pragmata

Since Perl does not allow you to supply a version requirement with a "require" statement, the scanner will check the statement after the "require Module" to see if it is "Module->VERSION( minimum_version );". In order to provide a minimum version, that method call must meet the following requirements:

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it must be the very next statement after "require Module". Nothing can separate them but whitespace and comments (and one semicolon).

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"Module" must be a bareword, and match the "require" exactly.

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"minimum_version" must be a literal number, v-string, or single-quoted string. Double quotes are not allowed.

AUTHORS¶

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Jerome Quelin

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Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.