1Prereq(3)             User Contributed Perl Documentation            Prereq(3)
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NAME

6       Test::Prereq - check if Makefile.PL has the right pre-requisites
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SYNOPSIS

9               # if you use Makefile.PL
10               use Test::More;
11               eval "use Test::Prereq";
12               plan skip_all => "Test::Prereq required to test dependencies" if $@;
13               prereq_ok();
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15               # specify a perl version, test name, or module names to skip
16               prereq_ok( $version, $name, \@skip );
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18               # if you use Module::Build
19               use Test::More;
20               eval "use Test::Prereq::Build";
21               plan skip_all => "Test::Prereq::Build required to test dependencies" if $@;
22               prereq_ok();
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24               # or from the command line for a one-off check
25               perl -MTest::Prereq -eprereq_ok
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DESCRIPTION

28       The prereq_ok() function examines the modules it finds in blib/lib/,
29       blib/script, and the test files it finds in t/ (and test.pl). It
30       figures out which modules they use, skips the modules that are in the
31       Perl core, and compares the remaining list of modules to those in the
32       PREREQ_PM section of Makefile.PL.
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34       If you use Module::Build instead, see Test::Prereq::Build instead.
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36   Modules Test::Prereq can't find
37       Module::Info only tells Test::Prereq which modules you used, not which
38       distribution they came in.  This can be a problem for things in
39       packages like libnet, libwww, Tk, and so on. At the moment Test::Prereq
40       asks CPAN.pm to expand anything in PREREQ_PM to see if one of the
41       distributions you explicity list contains the module you actually used.
42       This might fail in some cases.  Please send me anything that does not
43       do what you think it should.
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45       Test::Prereq only asks CPAN.pm for help if it needs it, since CPAN.pm
46       can be slow if it has to fetch things from the network. Once it fetches
47       the right things, it should be much faster.
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49   Problem with Module::Info
50       Module::Info appears to do something weird if a file it analyzes does
51       not use (or require) any modules.  You may get a message like
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53         Can't locate object method "name" via package "B::NULL" at
54         /usr/perl5.8.0/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/B/Module/Info.pm line 176.
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56       Also, if a file cannot compile, Module::Info dumps a lot of text to the
57       terminal.  You probably want to bail out of testing if the files do not
58       compile, though.
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60   Problem with CPANPLUS
61       CPANPLUS apparently does some weird things, and since it is still young
62       and not part of the Standard Library, Test::Prereq's tests do not do
63       the right thing under it (for some reason).  Test::Prereq cheats by
64       ignoring CPANPLUS completely in the tests---at least until someone has
65       a better solution.  If you do not like that, you can set
66       $EXCLUDE_CPANPLUS to a false value.
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68       You should be able to do a 'make test' manually to make everything
69       work, though.
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71   Warning about redefining ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile
72       Test::Prereq has its own version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker::WriteMakefile
73       so it can run the Makefile.PL and get the argument list of that
74       function.  You may see warnings about this.
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FUNCTIONS

77       prereq_ok( [ VERSION, [ NAME [, SKIP_ARRAY] ] ] )
78           Tests Makefile.PL to ensure all non-core module dependencies are in
79           PREREQ_PM. If you haven't set a testing plan already, prereq_ok()
80           creates a plan of one test.
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82           If you don't specify a version, prereq_ok assumes you want to
83           compare the list of prerequisite modules to version 5.008005.
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85           Valid versions come from Module::CoreList (which uses $[).
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87                   #!/usr/bin/perl
88                   use Module::CoreList;
89                   print map "$_\n", sort keys %Module::CoreList::version;
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92                   5.00307
93                   5.004
94                   5.00405
95                   5.005
96                   5.00503
97                   5.00504
98                   5.006
99                   5.006001
100                   5.006002
101                   5.007003
102                   5.008
103                   5.008001
104                   5.008002
105                   5.008003
106                   5.008004
107                   5.008005
108                   5.009
109                   5.009001
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111           prereq_ok attempts to remove modules found in blib and libraries
112           found in t from the reported prerequisites.
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114           The optional third argument is an array reference to a list of
115           names that prereq_ok should ignore. You might want to use this if
116           your tests do funny things with require.
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TO DO

119       * set up a couple fake module distributions to test
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121       * warn about things that show up in PREREQ_PM unnecessarily
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SOURCE AVAILABILITY

124       This source is in Github:
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126               http://github.com/briandfoy/test-prereq
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CONTRIBUTORS

129       Many thanks to:
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131       Andy Lester, Slavin Rezic, Randal Schwartz, Iain Truskett, Dylan Martin
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AUTHOR

134       brian d foy, "<bdfoy@cpan.org>"
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137       Copyright 2002-2009, brian d foy, All rights reserved
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139       This software is available under the same terms as perl.
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