NAME

Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5 - scan for core Perl 5 language indicators of required modules

VERSION

version 1.014

DESCRIPTION

This scanner will look for the following indicators:

• plain lines beginning with use or require in your perl modules and scripts, including minimum perl version
• regular inheritance declared with the base and parent pragmata

Since Perl does not allow you to supply a version requirement with a require statement, the scanner will check the statement after the require Module to see if it is Module->VERSION( minimum_version );.

In order to provide a minimum version, that method call must meet the following requirements:

• it must be the very next statement after require Module. Nothing can separate them but whitespace and comments (and one semicolon).
• Module must be a bareword, and match the require exactly.
• minimum_version must be a literal number, v-string, or single-quoted string. Double quotes are not allowed.

AUTHORS

• Jerome Quelin
• Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.