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NAME

perlrocks - CPAN installation management

VERSION

0.02

SYNOPSIS

A command 'perlrocks' is installed to install cpan distributions:

> perlrocks search Moose

# Install multiple vesion of Moose
> perlrocks install -v 2.0009 Moose
> perlrocks install -v 1.13 Moose

# Uninstall is possible
> rock uninstall Moose-1.14

Modify your program a little bit to make it effective.

# Put this in the very beginning of your program.
use perlrocks;

# Using the latest version of intsalled Moose
use Moose;

# Using exactly the version 2.0008 of Moose.
use Moose-2.0008

DESCRIPTION

This `perlrocks` things provides a mechanism to install multiple versions of CPAN distributions, and use specific one in programs.

In Perl5, the statement use Foo 1.0 or use Foo-1.0 means to load Foo.pm and check if $Foo::VERSION is at least 1.0. perlrocks alters that behavior to load exactly Foo 1.0. If only higher versions of Foo are found, it dies.

In order to do that, `perlrocks` makes perl search libs in a different way. Therefore, you need to install CPAN distributions differently. To do so, you must use the perlrocks command:

perlrocks install -v 2.0008 Moose
perlrocks install -v 2.0009 Moose

Also notice here in the document, the term "distribution" is used to refer to "the thing that gets uploaded to CPAN". Not "module", not "package". For example, To install MooseX::Struct module, you'll need to figure out the distribution name that provides it, in this case it's "MooseX-Struct":

perlrocks install MooseX-Struct

Since one CPAN distribution can contain as many modules as needed, each with different versions, it is ambiguous to state the command to install "Foo::Bar" module, with the version number refering to the "Foo" distribution.

Be aware of that perlrocks.pm tweaks your %INC, and it maybe significantly slower. Use it at your own risk.

METHODS

SEE ALSO

only, http://rubygems.org

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2011 Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>.

LICENCE

CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

CONTRIBUTORS

See https://github.com/gugod/perlrocks/contributors

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