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.

       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.

       The data is fetched from the net and cached for an hour.

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