NAME

Test::Version - check for VERSION information in modules

VERSION

version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

        use Test::Version;

        my $file = 'path/to/file.pm';

        version_ok( $file );

DESCRIPTION

Check files for VERSION information in perl modules. Inspired by brian d foy's Test::Pod (see Test::Pod).

ANNOUNCEMENT

IMPORTANT: This is alpha software, that was originally released in 2002. This is the last release of this module based on this code, the next release of Test::Version will be a rewrite from the ground up and will contain API changes. This version was released to notify of new maintainership and coming changes without breaking API. No functional code changes were made to this module in this relaease.

FUNCTIONS

version_ok( FILENAME, [EXPECTED, [NAME] ] )

Deprecation Note: EXPECTED is going away and the returns are are changing. simply calling version_ok( $filename ); should still work, however it will be stricter in future versions by checking for version validity.

version_ok requires a filename and returns one of the three values:

    NO_FILE       Could not find the file
    NO_VERSION    File had no VERSION information
    VERSION_OK    VERSION information exists

version_ok okays a test without an expected result if it finds VERSION information, or if an expected result is specified and it finds that condition. For instance, if you know there is no VERSION information,

    version_ok( $file, NO_VERSION );

When it fails, version_ok will show error information.

The optional third argument NAME is the name of the test which version_ok passes through to Test::Builder. Otherwise, it choose a default test name "VERSION test for FILENAME".

CAVEATS

Currently only checks files ending in '.pm', and expects the package name to match the filename. I'm open to suggestions for more robust parsing.

CREDITS

Thanks to brian d foy for the inspiration -- his Test::Pod module (on which this code is based,) and his "Better Documentation Through Testing" article in The Perl Journal, Nov 2002 (see http://www.tpj.com/).

AUTHORS

• particle <particle@cpan.org>

• Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2002 by Ars ex Machina, Corp..

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 1.0