MVERSION(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation MVERSION(1)NAMEmversion - Program to get module versions
SYNOPSIS
This program shows you the version of a module or several modules, in a
comfortable manner.
mversion Dancer
mversion--dev --full This That Another
mversion-q -i modules.txt
In Perl-world, we have many ways to determine a version of a module.
You can run "perl -MModule -le'print $Module::Version'", but once the
name is very long it becomes tiresome to write.
We can try to load the module in a specific version that is (hopefully)
greater than what we already have installed (if at all). That way we
purposely inflict an error on the compiler and try to read the error
msg. "perl -MModule\ 9999". This does not work on multiple modules at
once. Some modules even have long version numbers, such as a date, and
then you need to run "perl -MModule\ 9999999999" which is seriously
annoying.
There are a few modules out there that get you the version number of
other modules but none of them are applications, nor do they have
enough options for comfortable day-to-day usage. This is where
"mversion" comes in.
OPTIONS-f, --full
This outputs both the name and the version of module, instead of
just the version number.
mversion-f ThisModule ThatModule
mversion--full ThisModule ThatModule
-I, --include DIRECTORY, -I MORE, -I EVENMORE
This lets you add any number of directories to include when trying
to get a version number. This is very helpful when you're trying to
check if the version of a module in a specific folder is different
than the default one.
# get the version of ThisModule
mversion ThisModule
# get the version of ThisModule from directory dev_releases
mversion-I dev_releases ThisModule
You can include more directories by repeating the flag and argument
again. There is no limit to how many directories you can include.
-i, --input FILE
This reads a list of modules from a file.
mversion-i my_modules.txt
mversion--input my_modules.txt
-d, --dev
This shows the developer versions (0.01_01) just as that instead of
eval()ing them.
mversion-d Test::More
mversion--dev Test::More
-q, --quiet
Usually if a module does not exist, "mversion" will warn about it.
This allows you to silent those warnings and just carry on.
mversion-q This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does
mversion--quiet This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does
SEE ALSO
Module::Version
Github page at <http://github.com/xsawyerx/module-version>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010 Sawyer X.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
perl v5.20.2 2010-06-29 MVERSION(1)
