• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION

NAME

CPAN::Version - utility functions to compare CPAN versions

SYNOPSIS

  use CPAN::Version;

  CPAN::Version->vgt("1.1","1.1.1");    # 1

  CPAN::Version->vcmp("1.1","1.1.1");   # 1

  CPAN::Version->readable(v1.2.3);      # "v1.2.3"

  CPAN::Version->vstring("v1.2.3");     # v1.2.3

  CPAN::Version->float2vv(1.002003);    # "v1.2.3"

DESCRIPTION

This module mediates between some version that perl sees in a package and the version that is published by the CPAN indexer.

It's only written as a helper module for both CPAN.pm and CPANPLUS.pm.

As it stands it predates version.pm but has the same goal: make version strings visible and comparable.