NAME

Pod::MinimumVersion - Perl version for POD directives used

SYNPOSIS

 use Pod::MinimumVersion;
 my $pmv = Pod::MinimumVersion->new (filename => '/some/foo.pl');
 print $pmv->minimum_version,"\n";
 print $pmv->reports;

DESCRIPTION

Caution: This is work in progress, don't use it yet.

Pod::MinimumVersion parses the POD in a Perl script, module, or document, and reports what version of Perl is required to process the directives in it with pod2man etc.

CHECKS

The following POD features are identified.

• =for, =begin and =end new in 5.004.
• L<display text|target> display part, new in 5.005.
• C<< foo >> double-angles, new in 5.6.0.
• =head3 and =head4, new in 5.8.0.
• L<http://some.where.com>, new in 5.8.0. (Prior versions take the "/" as a "section" part, giving very poor output.)
• E<apos>, E<sol>, E<verbar> chars, new in 5.8.0. (Documented in 5.6.0, but pod2man doesn't recognise them until 5.8.)
• =encoding command, new in 5.10.0. (Documented in 5.8.0, but pod2man doesn't recognise it until 5.10.)

FUNCTIONS

$pmv = Pod::MinimumVersion->new (key => value, ...)

Create and return a new Pod::MinimumVersion object which will analyze a document. The document is supplied as one of

    filehandle => $fh,
    string     => 'something',
    filename   => '/my/dir/foo.pod',

For filehandle and string, a filename can be supplied too to give a name in the reports. The handle or string is what's actually read though.

The above_version option lets you set a Perl version you use, so reports are only about features above that level.

    above_version => '5.006',

$version = $pmv->minimum_version ()

$report = $pmv->minimum_report ()

Return the minimum Perl required for the document in $pmv.

minimum_version returns a version object (see version). minimum_report returns a Pod::MinimumVersion::Report object described below ("REPORT OBJECTS").

@reports = $pmv->reports ()

Return a list of Pod::MinimumVersion::Report objects concerning the document in $pmv.

These multiple reports let you identify multiple places that a particular Perl is required. With the above_version option the reports are still only about things higher than that.

The report from minimum_version and minimum_report is simply the highest Perl among these multiple reports.

REPORT OBJECTS

A Pod::MinimumVersion::Report object holds a location within a document and a reason that a particular Perl is needed at that point. The hash fields are

    filename   string
    linenum    integer, with 1 for the first line
    version    version object
    why        string

$str = $report->as_string

Return a formatted string for the report. Currently this is in GNU file:line style, simply

    <filename>:<linenum>: <version> due to <why>

SEE ALSO

version, Perl::MinimumVersion, Perl::Critic::Policy::Compatibility::PodMinimumVersion

HOME PAGE

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/perl-critic-pulp/index.html

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2009 Kevin Ryde

Perl-Critic-Pulp is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

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