Module::Packaged(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				     Module::Packaged(3pm)

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, Mandriva (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

perl v5.12.4							    2011-09-17						     Module::Packaged(3pm)