NAME

Module::Packaged - Report upon packages of CPAN distributions

SYNOPSIS

use Module::Packaged;

      my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
      my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
      # $dists is now:
      # {
      # cpan    => '1.08',
      # debian  => '1.03',
      # fedora  => '0.22',
      # freebsd => '1.07',
      # gentoo  => '1.05',
      # openbsd => '0.22',
      # suse    => '0.23',
      # }

      # meaning that Archive-Tar is at version 1.08 on CPAN but only at
      # version 1.07 on FreeBSD, version 1.05 on Gentoo, version 1.03 on
      # Debian, version 0.23 on SUSE and version 0.22 on OpenBSD

DESCRIPTION

CPAN consists of distributions. However, CPAN is not an isolated system

• distributions are also packaged in other places, such as for operating systems. This module reports whether CPAN distributions are packaged for various operating systems, and which version they have.

Only CPAN, Debian, Fedora (Core 2), FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandrake (10.1), OpenBSD (3.6) and SUSE (9.2) are currently supported. I want to support everything else. Patches are welcome.

The data is fetched from the net and cached for an hour.

METHODS
new()
The new() method is a constructor:

my $p = Module::Packaged->new();

check()
The check() method returns a hash reference. The keys are various distributions, the values the version number included:

my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003-5 Leon Brocard. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Leon Brocard, leon@astray.com