NAME

       Perl::PrereqScanner::Scanner::Perl5 - scan for core Perl 5 language indicators of required modules

VERSION

       version 1.023

DESCRIPTION

       This scanner will look for the following indicators:

       •   plain lines beginning with "use", "require", or "no" in your perl modules and scripts, including
           minimum perl version

       •   regular inheritance declared with the "base" and "parent" pragmata

       Since Perl does not allow you to supply a version requirement with a "require" statement, the scanner
       will check the statement after the "require Module" to see if it is "Module->VERSION( minimum_version
       );".

       In order to provide a minimum version, that method call must meet the following requirements:

       •   it must be the very next statement after "require Module".  Nothing can separate them but whitespace
           and comments (and one semicolon).

       •   "Module" must be a bareword, and match the "require" exactly.

       •   "minimum_version" must be a literal number, v-string, or single-quoted string.  Double quotes are not
           allowed.

AUTHORS

       •   Jerome Quelin

       •   Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jerome Quelin.

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