Module-Versions version 0.02
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DESCRIPTION

Module::Versions handles versions of loaded modules with a flexible result
interface. The main goal is to get as much version informations as possible
about a module or module list with a simple call interface and an absolutely
flexible result interface. Module::Versions handles *loaded* and *loadable*
modules.

The motivation for writing this module was the need for better support
facilities to get  informations about the used modules and versions in the
productivity environment. Module::Versions allows shipping applications
basically with something like a '-version' option (See Getopt::Long) but
with expanded functions.

Module::Versions tries to read the loaded/loadable module's $VERSION. For
extended purposes any private project 'version variables' can be fetched
($_VERSION, $version, $REV, etc.).

Module::Versions has a flexible result interface to satisfy different needs:
results can be lists and data structures with different formats - pre-formed
ARRAY, HASH, SCALAR, CSV, XML/XSD/DTD and a full flexible user callback
interface.

It is for example very simple to print a good formatted version list to the
console and save a version.xml file (in conjunction with an xsd-schema) at
the same time with an absolutely minimum of coding.

Module::Versions tries to load 'version.pm' to support Perl 5.10.0's $VERSION
formatting.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  IO::Handle
  Data::Dumper

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2006 Thomas Walloschke (thw@cpan.org). All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.6 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available. See
perlartistic.