PERLVER(1)

💖 PERLVER(1) 💖

ok so this is the manual for perlver, from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section. yes bestie, we're doing a whole manpage and it's gonna be cute, stay with me 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

perlver — The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

adam@red:~$ perlver Perl-MinimumVersion
Found directory '.'
Searching for Perl files... found 3 file(s)
Scanning lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm... done
Scanning t/01_compile.t... done
Scanning t/02_main.t... done

    ---------------------------------------------------------
  | file                       | explicit | syntax | external |
  | --------------------------------------------------------- |
  | lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm | 5.005    | ~      | n/a      |
  | t/01_compile.t             | ~        | ~      | n/a      |
  | t/02_main.t                | ~        | ~      | n/a      |
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Minimum version of Perl required: ...

adam@red:~$

like, look at that table. it's giving organized. it's giving I know exactly what Perl version your code needs. periodt ✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ok so perlver is a console script, and its whole job is to give you convenient access to the functionality that Perl::MinimumVersion provides. that's it. that's the vibe. 🎀

the --blame option shows code which requires this version of perl 👀 — yes, it will literally point at the culprit lines. iconic behaviour, honestly.

and the synopsis above? bestie, that pretty much covers all you need to know at this point. fr fr. no cap. 💀

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🧚 TO DO 🧚

stuff that's not done yet (it's on the list, okay, we're getting to it):

• Add PPI::Cache integration
• Add PPI::Metrics integration (once it exists)
• Add some sort of parseable output

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💜 SUPPORT 💜

if something's broken, all bugs should be filed via the bug tracker at:

<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Perl-MinimumVersion>

and for other issues, or commercial enhancement and support, contact the author 🫶

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• PPI
• Perl::MinimumVersion

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright 2005 - 2012 Adam Kennedy.

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

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

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ok bestie that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨ this was perlver, from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-08-05 — go find out what minimum Perl your code is secretly demanding, mwah 💖🦋🌸