CPAN::Version3p

Utility functions to compare cpan versions

Usage

  use CPAN::Version;
  CPAN::Version->vgt("1.1","1.1.1");    # 1 bc. 1.1 > 1.001001
  CPAN::Version->vlt("1.1","1.1");      # 0 bc. 1.1 not < 1.1
  CPAN::Version->vcmp("1.1","1.1.1");   # 1 bc. first is larger
  CPAN::Version->vcmp("1.1.1","1.1");   # -1 bc. first is smaller
  CPAN::Version->readable(v1.2.3);      # "v1.2.3"
  CPAN::Version->vstring("v1.2.3");     # v1.2.3
  CPAN::Version->float2vv(1.002003);    # "v1.2.3"

Overview

This module mediates between some version that perl sees in a package and the version that is published by the CPAN indexer.

It's only written as a helper module for both CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm.

As it stands it predates version.pm but has the same goal: make version strings visible and comparable.

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

5.0–5.3
5.4–5.5
5.6
5.7
5.8–5.9
6.0
6.1
6.2
6.3–6.4
6.5
6.6
6.7
6.8
6.9–7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
7.6
7.7–7.8
7.9
8.0