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NAME
       mversion - Program to get module versions

SYNOPSIS
       This program shows you the version of a module or several modules, in a
       comfortable manner.

           mversion Dancer
           mversion --dev --full This That Another
           mversion -q -i modules.txt

       In Perl-world, we have many ways to determine a version of a module.
       You can run "perl -MModule -le'print $Module::Version'", but once the
       name is very long it becomes tiresome to write.

       We can try to load the module in a specific version that is (hopefully)
       greater than what we already have installed (if at all). That way we
       purposely inflict an error on the compiler and try to read the error
       msg. "perl -MModule\ 9999".  This does not work on multiple modules at
       once. Some modules even have long version numbers, such as a date, and
       then you need to run "perl -MModule\ 9999999999" which is seriously
       annoying.

       There are a few modules out there that get you the version number of
       other modules but none of them are applications, nor do they have
       enough options for comfortable day-to-day usage. This is where
       "mversion" comes in.

OPTIONS
       -f, --full
           This outputs both the name and the version of module, instead of
           just the version number.

               mversion -f ThisModule ThatModule
               mversion --full ThisModule ThatModule

       -I, --include DIRECTORY, -I MORE, -I EVENMORE
           This lets you add any number of directories to include when trying
           to get a version number. This is very helpful when you're trying to
           check if the version of a module in a specific folder is different
           than the default one.

               # get the version of ThisModule
               mversion ThisModule

               # get the version of ThisModule from directory dev_releases
               mversion -I dev_releases ThisModule

           You can include more directories by repeating the flag and argument
           again. There is no limit to how many directories you can include.

       -i, --input FILE
           This reads a list of modules from a file.

               mversion -i my_modules.txt
               mversion --input my_modules.txt

       -d, --dev
           This shows the developer versions (0.01_01) just as that instead of
           eval()ing them.

               mversion -d Test::More
               mversion --dev Test::More

       -q, --quiet
           Usually if a module does not exist, "mversion" will warn about it.
           This allows you to silent those warnings and just carry on.

               mversion -q This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does
               mversion --quiet This::Does::Not::Exist But::This::Does

SEE ALSO
       Module::Version

       Github page at <http://github.com/xsawyerx/module-version>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2010 Sawyer X.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
       by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.

perl v5.20.2                      2010-06-29                       MVERSION(1)