Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- CAVEATS
- HISTORY
- AUTHOR
- COPYRIGHT
- SEE ALSO

# 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 5.00405
     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"

     print join " ", @{ $Module::CoreList::patchlevel{5.008001} };
        # prints "maint-5.8 21377"

# DESCRIPTION

Module::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 the perlhist manpage.

New, in 1.96 is also the %Module::CoreList::families hash, which clusters known perl releases by their major versions.

In 2.01 %Module::CoreList::patchlevel contains the branch and patchlevel corresponding to the specified perl version in the Perforce repository where the perl sources are kept.

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().

# CAVEATS

Module::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, 5.9.0, 5.9.1, 5.9.2, 5.9.3, 5.9.4, 5.9.5 and 5.10.0 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) 2002-2007 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

the corelist manpage, the Module::Info manpage, the perl manpage

Module::CoreList - what modules shipped with versions of perl