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.