I'm trying to use CPANPLUS to query modules. Looking at the documentation, I thought the following would work:

#! /usr/local/bin/perl -wl

use strict;
use CPANPLUS::Backend;

my $cb = CPANPLUS::Backend->new;

for my $dist( @ARGV ) {
    my $res = $cb->search(
        type  => 'module',
        allow => [],
        data  => [qr/$dist/],
    );
    use Data::Dumper;
    print Dumper($res);
}

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Running this with '^Text::' on the command line should spit out all the modules in the Text namespace with their current version. And then I could smoke test them. Except that it doesn't, it crashes with:

Can't locate object method "module" via package "Regexp" at /usr/local
+/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/CPANPLUS/Internals/Search.pm line 166.

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But... the documentation for CPANPLUS::Backend::search says:

"search" enables you to search for either module or author objects, based on their data. The "type" you can specify is any of the accessors specified in "CPANPLUS::Module::Author" or "CPANPLUS::Module". "search" will determine by the "type" you specified whether to search by author object or module object.

... and CPANPLUS::Module declares a search module accessor. 'use'ing the module explicitly in the script doesn't fix it either. Can somebody point out the error of my ways?

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