It's apparently never come up for me in nearly two decades of using Perl -- two questions:

  1. How do I determine if a module suggested to me is Core?
  2. Where do I get a list of Core modules for a given Perl release?

A reasonable alternative to the first one, of course, is to simply write a test script and see if it complains; however, this technically only means it came with my distribution, and is not a foolproof indicator of "Coreness".

I ask because I followed a link for Sub::Install thinking it might lead to a neat way to modularize and make dynamically loadable code; saw the version as 0.9xxx and thought, "Hmm, I wonder if this is Core".

I then compared it to File::Findand did notice a few subtle differences in the way the bread crumb links at the top were assembled; but rather than reverse engineer and guess at the bits, I thought I'd see if there was a more authoritative reference someplace.

Update:

I did use Super Search, but, typical of my first efforts to find things with search engines, I came up with a bunch of links that didn't seem to answer the questions. Apparently, my Search-Fu is not strong.

In reply to How To Identify or List Core Modules by marinersk

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