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Id: 77101
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Queue: Module-Runtime
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Requestors: perl [...] toby.ink
Cc: ribasushi [...] leporine.io
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  Wed May 09 16:46:03 2012 perl [...] toby.ink - Ticket created
Subject: available_module(MODULENAME)
It would be handy to have a function that translates a module name to its notional filename, searches @INC for it, but does not then require it. Example use case... a module I'm working on needs: * Mouse and MouseX::Types; or * Moose and MooseX::Types. I don't want to require Mouse until I'm sure that MouseX::Types is available, and I don't want to require Moose until I'm sure that MooseX::Types is available. Maybe even accept a list available_modules(MODULE1, MODULE2, ...) and return true if and only if all the modules listed are available.
  Thu May 10 05:00:30 2012 zefram [...] fysh.org - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #77101] available_module(MODULENAME)
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 10:00:12 +0100
To: Toby Inkster via RT <bug-Module-Runtime [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Zefram <zefram [...] fysh.org>
Toby Inkster via RT wrote: Show quoted text
>It would be handy to have a function that translates a module name to its >notional filename, searches @INC for it, but does not then require it.
With the possibility for code refs in @INC, searching @INC for a module is not a straightforward task. I'm not sure that this can be correctly done outside the core. Still, it's a sane wish, I'll keep this ticket open. -zefram
  Thu May 10 05:00:31 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Fri May 11 19:13:59 2012 perl [...] toby.ink - Correspondence added
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> With the possibility for code refs in @INC
Good point - I hadn't considered that. Still, I'd be happy with a tri- state: 1 = "module certainly exists; it's already been included, or we've found it on disk" 0 = "module certainly does not exist; it's not included, it's not on disk, and there are no coderefs in @INC" undef = "module might exist; it's not included, it's not on disk, but there are coderefs in @INC"
  Fri Oct 26 04:21:17 2012 ribasushi [...] leporine.io - Correspondence added
On Fri May 11 19:13:59 2012, TOBYINK wrote: Show quoted text
> > With the possibility for code refs in @INC
> > Good point - I hadn't considered that. Still, I'd be happy with a tri- > state: > > 1 = "module certainly exists; it's already been included, or we've found > it on disk" > > 0 = "module certainly does not exist; it's not included, it's not on > disk, and there are no coderefs in @INC" > > undef = "module might exist; it's not included, it's not on disk, but > there are coderefs in @INC"
Have you checked Class::Inspector->installed() ? It is pretty close to what you are after. However see the caveat in the bugtracker (i.e. coderefs in INC, which happens to be how PAR works)
  Fri Oct 26 05:04:45 2012 ribasushi [...] leporine.io - Cc RIBASUSHI added
  Tue Dec 03 18:03:09 2013 NNUTTER [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
I think find_module might be a better name than available_module. I am only chiming in because a function to do this came up in another discussion related to Module::Runtime.
  Thu Jul 17 12:12:44 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On 2012-05-10 02:00:30, zefram@fysh.org wrote: Show quoted text
> Toby Inkster via RT wrote:
> >It would be handy to have a function that translates a module name to its > >notional filename, searches @INC for it, but does not then require it.
> > With the possibility for code refs in @INC, searching @INC for a module is > not a straightforward task. I'm not sure that this can be correctly done > outside the core. Still, it's a sane wish, I'll keep this ticket open.
Module::Path can do this, mostly.