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This module adds a _create_structured_tree_ subroutine to Directory::Scratch. This method is useful to create a directory structure needed for temporary purposes, e.g. for testing.
There is no reason to use this module nowadays. The DirHandle module provides an alternative interface to the opendir(), closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() functions. Since Perl 5.6, opendir() alone has been all you need for lexical handles.
One shortcoming of the CPAN clients that currently exist is that they have no way of specifying conflicting downstream dependencies of modules. This module attempts to work around this issue by allowing you to specify conflicting versions of modules separately, and deal with them after the module is done installing. For instance, say you have a module Foo, and some other module Bar uses Foo. If Foo were to change its API in a non-backwards-compatible way, this would cause Bar to break until it is updated to use the new API. Foo can't just depend on the fixed version of Bar, because this will cause a circular dependency (because Bar is already depending on Foo), and this doesn't express intent properly anyway - Foo doesn't use Bar at all. The ideal solution would be for there to be a way to specify conflicting versions of modules in a way that would let CPAN clients update conflicting modules automatically after an existing module is upgraded, but until that happens, this module will allow users to do this manually.
This is a documentation for Perl language. It's provided in POD and manual page format.
Dumpvalue module enables you to print a content of variables and other Perl data structures.
The DynaLoader module defines a standard generic interface to the dynamic linking mechanisms available on many platforms. Its primary purpose is to implement automatic dynamic loading of Perl modules. For a simpler interface, see XSLoader module.
This module provides a function-based interface to dynamic loading as used by Perl. Some details of dynamic loading are very platform-dependent, so correct use of these functions requires the programmer to be mindful of the space of platform variations.