NAME

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

VERSION

version 1.023

DESCRIPTION

This scanner will look for the following indicators:

plain lines beginning with "use", "require", or "no" 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 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.