NAME

RakudoPrereq - Specify minimum required versions of Rakudo

SYNOPSIS

use RakudoPrereq v2021.04; # specify minimum Rakudo version 2021.04

# specify minimum Rakudo version 2021.04, with custom message
# when user's Rakudo is too old
use RakudoPrereq v2021.04, 'Your Raku is way too old, bruh!';

# specify minimum Rakudo version 2021.04, use default message and die
# when non-Rakudo compiler is used
use RakudoPrereq v2021.04, '', 'rakudo-only';

# specify minimum Rakudo version 2021.04, use custom message and die
# when non-Rakudo compiler is used
use RakudoPrereq v2021.04, 'your compiler is no good', 'rakudo-only';

# specify minimum Rakudo version 2021.04, use default message and die
# when non-Rakudo compiler is used and don't print location of `use`
use RakudoPrereq v2021.04, '', 'rakudo-only no-where';

DESCRIPTION

Need to black-list non-Rakudo compilers or some Rakudo versions that implement the same language version? This module is for you!

If the program is run on a Rakudo that's too old, the module will print a message and exit with status 1

USAGE

The entire API is via the arguments specified on the use RakudoPrereq line.

Minimum Rakudo version

The first argument is required and is the Version object specifying the minimum required Rakudo version.

Custom message

By default, the module will print a generic message before exiting, you can specify a custom message here. Default message will be printed if the specified custom message is an empty string.

String with options

Space-separated string of options:

rakudo-only

By default, the module would not fail if the compiler is not Rakudo. Specify this option if you want to fail for non-Rakudo compilers as well, regardless of their version.

no-where

Both the default and custom message will have the location of where the use RakudoPrereq that caused failure is at. Specify this argument if you want to surpress that information.

AUTHOR

Zoffix Znet

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.