On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 13:41:16 +0300, "Gabor Szabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While checking if the versions of all the modules are as
> required in our installation I am using the following one liner to
> fetch the version numbers.
>
> perl -MModule -e'print $Module::VERSION'
Not really reliable :) But the more reliable ways take some post-processing
pc09:/home/merijn 108 > perl -le'require V;print V::get_version("DBI")'
1.51
pc09:/home/merijn 109 > perl -MExtUtils::Installed -le'print
ExtUtils::Installed->new->version("DBI")'
1.51
pc09:/home/merijn 110 > perl -MV=DBI
DBI
/pro/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux-64int/DBI.pm: 1.51
pc09:/home/merijn 111 > perl -le'require V;print V::get_version("DBI")'
1.51
pc09:/home/merijn 112 > perl -MDBI=999999
DBI version 999999 required--this is only version 1.51 at
/pro/lib/perl5/5.8.7/Exporter/Heavy.pm line 121.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
Exit 9
pc09:/home/merijn 113 >
V is not (yet) on CPAN: http://www.test-smoke.org/otherperl.html
> Some of the modules print extra error messages and some print
> only error messages.
> I have sent e-mail to the respective module authors reporting this
> issue but I wonder if it would this a good practice in the genric case.
>
> Is there a Test module that test just the above?
> Is the a CPANST score one can get if all the modules in a distro
> provide the correct version information and if they don't print anything
> else to STDOUT or STDERR.
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