PERLVER(1p)

💖 PERLVER 💖

okay bestie, welcome to perlver — it's from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, and it is literally The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer 👑

it looks at your code and is like "bestie… this is Perl 5.005 energy" and honestly? iconic.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

here's the vibe, in full, no cuts:

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      |
    ---------------------------------------------------------

Minimum version of Perl required: ...

adam@red:~$

look at that little table. it's giving spreadsheet but make it fashion 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

perlver is a console script, and its whole job is giving you convenient access to everything Perl::MinimumVersion can do. it's basically the friendly drive-thru window for that module 🍓

oh and the --blame option? it shows you the actual code that's out here requiring that version of perl. receipts. it's showing you the receipts 🔥

and fr fr, the synopsis up there pretty much covers everything you need to know at this point. that's it. that's the tea ☕

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🎀 TO DO 🎀

the author has a lil wishlist and we're rooting for them:

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

manifesting all of these for them, ngl 🕯️✨

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🫶 SUPPORT 🫶

got bugs? bestie, don't suffer in silence. 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 for commercial enhancement and support, contact the author directly. go straight to the source, main character move 💜

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

(the legend themselves 🫡)

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• PPI
• Perl::MinimumVersion

iykyk 💅

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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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okay that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍽️✨ this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-08-10, and it's the PERLVER(1p) page — mwah, bye bestie 💖🎀🌈