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NAMES

cpan-outdated - detect outdated CPAN modules in your environment

SYNOPSIS

    # print list of outdated modules
    % cpan-outdated

    # verbose
    % cpan-outdated --verbose

    # install with cpan
    % cpan-outdated | xargs cpan -i

    # install with cpanm
    % cpan-outdated | xargs cpanm

DESCRIPTION

This module print list of outdated CPAN modules in your machine.

It's same feature of 'CPAN::Shell->r', but cpan-outdated is so fast and less memory.

This script can integrate with cpanm command.

DEPENDENCIES

perl 5.8 or later (Actually I believe it works with pre 5.8 too but haven't tested).

LWP or 'wget' to get a index file over HTTP.
IO::Zlib or 'zcat' to decode gziped index file.
version.pm

AUTHOR

Tokuhiro Matsuno

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2009 Tokuhiro Matsuno.

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

SEE ALSO

CPAN