.\" -*- mode: troff; coding: utf-8 -*- .\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 5.0102 (Pod::Simple 3.45) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== .de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP) .if t .sp .5v .if n .sp .. .de Vb \" Begin verbatim text .ft CW .nf .ne \\$1 .. .de Ve \" End verbatim text .ft R .fi .. .\" \*(C` and \*(C' are quotes in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>. .ie n \{\ . ds C` "" . ds C' "" 'br\} .el\{\ . ds C` . ds C' 'br\} .\" .\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform. .ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq .el .ds Aq ' .\" .\" If the F register is >0, we'll generate index entries on stderr for .\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index .\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the .\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion. .\" .\" Avoid warning from groff about undefined register 'F'. .de IX .. .nr rF 0 .if \n(.g .if rF .nr rF 1 .if (\n(rF:(\n(.g==0)) \{\ . if \nF \{\ . de IX . tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2" .. . if !\nF==2 \{\ . nr % 0 . nr F 2 . \} . \} .\} .rr rF .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "CPAN::Version 3perl" .TH CPAN::Version 3perl 2024-09-01 "perl v5.40.0" "Perl Programmers Reference Guide" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH NAME CPAN::Version \- utility functions to compare CPAN versions .SH SYNOPSIS .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 1 \& 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" .Ve .SH DESCRIPTION .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" This module mediates between some version that perl sees in a package and the version that is published by the CPAN indexer. .PP It's only written as a helper module for both CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm. .PP As it stands it predates version.pm but has the same goal: make version strings visible and comparable. .SH LICENSE .IX Header "LICENSE" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.