Test::MinimumVersion(3)

NAME
Test::MinimumVersion - does your code require newer perl than you think?

VERSION
version 0.101083

SYNOPSIS
Example minimum-perl.t:

  #!perl
  use Test::MinimumVersion;
  all_minimum_version_ok('5.008');

PERL VERSION
This library should run on perls released even an extremely long time ago. It should work on any version of perl released in the last ten years.

Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

FUNCTIONS

  minimum_version_ok
  minimum_version_ok($file, $version);

This test passes if the given file does not seem to require any version of perl newer than $version, which may be given as a version string or a version object.

  all_minimum_version_ok
  all_minimum_version_ok($version, \%arg);

Given either a version string or a version object, this routine produces a test plan (if there is no plan) and tests each relevant file with "minimum_version_ok".

Relevant files are found by File::Find::Rule::Perl.

"\%arg" is optional. Valid arguments are:

  paths   - in what paths to look for files; defaults to (bin, script, t, lib,
            xt/smoke, and any .pm or .PL files in the current working
            directory) if it contains files, they will be checked
  no_plan - do not plan the tests about to be run
  skip    - files to skip; this can be useful in weird cases like gigantic
            files, files falsely detected as Perl, or code that uses
            a source filter; this should be an arrayref of filenames

  all_minimum_version_from_metayml_ok
  all_minimum_version_from_metayml_ok(\%arg);

This routine checks META.yml for an entry in requires for perl. If no META.yml file or no perl version is found, all tests are skipped. If a version is found, the test proceeds as if "all_minimum_version_ok" had been called with that version.

  all_minimum_version_from_metajson_ok
  all_minimum_version_from_metajson_ok(\%arg);

This routine checks META.json for an entry in requires for perl. If no META.json file or no perl version is found, all tests are skipped. If a version is found, the test proceeds as if "all_minimum_version_ok" had been called with that version.

  all_minimum_version_from_mymetayml_ok
  all_minimum_version_from_mymetayml_ok(\%arg);

This routine checks MYMETA.yml for an entry in requires for perl. If no MYMETA.yml file or no perl version is found, all tests are skipped. If a version is found, the test proceeds as if "all_minimum_version_ok" had been called with that version.

  all_minimum_version_from_mymetajson_ok
  all_minimum_version_from_mymetajson_ok(\%arg);

This routine checks MYMETA.json for an entry in requires for perl. If no MYMETA.json file or no perl version is found, all tests are skipped. If a version is found, the test proceeds as if "all_minimum_version_ok" had been called with that version.

AUTHOR
Ricardo Signes

CONTRIBUTORS

•   Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@codesimply.com>

•   Ricardo Signes <rjbs@semiotic.systems>

•   Steve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Ricardo Signes.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.