Module::CoreList(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide 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"
print join " ", @{ $Module::CoreList::patchlevel{5.008001} };
# prints "maint-5.8 21377"
DESCRIPTIONModule::CoreList contains the hash of hashes %Module::CoreList::ver‐
sion, 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 for‐
matted versions of the release dates, as gleaned from perlhist.
New, in 1.96 is also the %Module::CoreList::families hash, which clus‐
ters known perl releases by their major versions.
In 2.01 %Module::CoreList::patchlevel contains the branch and patch‐
level 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().
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, 5.9.0,
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
corelist, Module::Info, perl
perl v5.8.8 2008-09-19 Module::CoreList(3)
