Module::CoreList(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Module::CoreList(3)NAMEModule::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 5.00405
print Module::CoreList->first_release_by_date('File::Spec'); # prints 5.005
print Module::CoreList->first_release('File::Spec', 0.82); # prints 5.006001
print join ', ', Module::CoreList->find_modules(qr/Data/);
# prints 'Data::Dumper'
print join ', ', Module::CoreList->find_modules(qr/test::h.*::.*s/i, 5.008008);
# prints 'Test::Harness::Assert, Test::Harness::Straps'
print join ", ", @{ $Module::CoreList::families{5.005} };
# prints "5.005, 5.00503, 5.00504"
DESCRIPTIONModule::CoreList contains the hash of hashes
%Module::CoreList::version, that 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.
New, in 1.96 is also the %Module::CoreList::families hash, which
clusters known perl releases by their major versions.
Starting with 2.10, the special module name "Unicode" refers to the
version of the Unicode Character Database bundled with Perl.
Since 2.11, Module::CoreList::first_release() returns the first release
in the order of perl version numbers. If you want to get the earliest
perl release instead, use Module::CoreList::first_release_by_date().
New in 2.22, Module::CoreList::is_deprecated(MODULE,PERL_VERSION)
returns true if MODULE is marked as deprecated in PERL_VERSION. If
PERL_VERSION is omitted, it defaults to the current version of Perl.
CAVEATSModule::CoreList currently covers the 5.000, 5.001, 5.002, 5.003_07,
5.004, 5.004_05, 5.005, 5.005_03, 5.005_04, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.6.2, 5.7.3,
5.8.0, 5.8.1, 5.8.2, 5.8.3, 5.8.4, 5.8.5, 5.8.6, 5.8.7, 5.8.8, 5.8.9,
5.9.0, 5.9.1, 5.9.2, 5.9.3, 5.9.4, 5.9.5, 5.10.0, 5.10.1, 5.11.0,
5.11.1, 5.11.2, 5.11.3, 5.11.4, 5.11.5, 5.12.0 and 5.13.0 releases of
perl.
HISTORY
Moved to Changes file.
AUTHOR
Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>
Currently maintained by the perl 5 porters <perl5-porters@perl.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002-2009 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
corelist, Module::Info, perl
perl v5.10.1 2010-04-20 Module::CoreList(3)