On 12 Jul 2006 11:52:07 -0000, Rafael Garcia-Suarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Gabor Szabo" wrote in perl.qa : > > 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' > > You should probably use -mModule to avoid calling Module::import(). > (also, in some pathological cases, one can imagine that > UNIVERSAL::VERSION() has been overidden) > > Side note: > Abe Timmerman has a module, V, useful to get versions > of installed modules: > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2006-03/msg01038.html I never use -m. I should :) # perl -mV -le'print V::get_version("DBI")' 1.51 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
