NAME

       Module::Packaged - Report upon packages of CPAN distributions

SYNOPSIS

         use Module::Packaged;

         my $p = Module::Packaged->new();
         my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');
         # $dists is now:
         # {
         # cpan    => '1.08',
         # debian  => '1.03',
         # fedora  => '0.22',
         # freebsd => '1.07',
         # gentoo  => '1.05',
         # openbsd => '0.22',
         # suse    => '0.23',
         # }

         # meaning that Archive-Tar is at version 1.08 on CPAN but only at
         # version 1.07 on FreeBSD, version 1.05 on Gentoo, version 1.03 on
         # Debian, version 0.23 on SUSE and version 0.22 on OpenBSD

DESCRIPTION

       CPAN consists of distributions. However, CPAN is not an isolated system - distributions
       are also packaged in other places, such as for operating systems. This module reports
       whether CPAN distributions are packaged for various operating systems, and which version
       they have.

       Note: only CPAN, Debian, Fedora (Core 2), FreeBSD, Gentoo, Mandriva (10.1), OpenBSD (3.6)
       and SUSE (9.2) are currently supported. I want to support everything else. Patches are
       welcome.

METHODS

   new()
       The new() method is a constructor:

         my $p = Module::Packaged->new();

   check()
       The check() method returns a hash reference. The keys are various distributions, the
       values the version number included:

         my $dists = $p->check('Archive-Tar');

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2003-5 Leon Brocard. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you
       can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

       Leon Brocard, leon@astray.com