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.

It also contains %Module::CoreList::released hash, which has ISO formatted versions of the release dates, as gleaned from perlhist

CAVEATS

Module::CoreList currently only covers the 5.003_07, 5.004, 5.004)05, 5.005, 5.005_03, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.7.3 and 5.8.0 releases of perl. Probing this information can be rather time consuming so patches are welcomed for earlier versions.

HISTORY

1.6 19th July 2002

Included Config as a shipped module for all releases of perl (caught by Mark Fowler)

Added data for the 5.8 release.

1.5 2nd April 2002

Fixed a glaring bug caught by the testsuite but sadly released. perl5.004_05 was released post 5.005_03 and so isn't the first release to contain File::Spec.

Added data for 5.003_07, 5.004, and 5.005 releases.

Added the %released hash.

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