Devel::Hide (3pm)

    use Devel::Hide qw(Module/ToHide.pm);
    require Module::ToHide; # fails

    use Devel::Hide qw(Test::Pod Test::Pod::Coverage);
    require Test::More; # ok
    use Test::Pod 1.18; # fails

Other common usage patterns:

$ perl -MDevel::Hide=Module::ToHide Makefile.PL

bash$ PERL5OPT=MDevel::Hide bash$ DEVEL_HIDE_PM='Module::Which Test::Pod' bash$ export PERL5OPT DEVEL_HIDE_PM bash$ perl Makefile.PL

outputs (like blib)

Devel::Hide hides Module::Which, Test::Pod, etc.

Given a list of Perl modules/filenames, this module makes \*(C`require\*(C' and \*(C`use\*(C' statements fail (no matter the specified files/modules are installed or not).

They die with a message like:

Can't locate Module/ToHide.pm (hidden)

The original intent of this module is to allow Perl developers to test for alternative behavior when some modules are not available. In a Perl installation, where many modules are already installed, there is a chance to screw things up because you take for granted things that may not be there in other machines.

For example, to test if your distribution does the right thing when a module is missing, you can do

perl -MDevel::Hide=Test::Pod Makefile.PL

forcing \*(C`Test::Pod\*(C' to not be found (whether it is installed or not).

Another use case is to force a module which can choose between two requisites to use the one which is not the default. For example, \*(C`XML::Simple\*(C' needs a parser module and may use \*(C`XML::Parser\*(C' or \*(C`XML::SAX\*(C' (preferring the latter). If you have both of them installed, it will always try \*(C`XML::SAX\*(C'. But you can say:

perl -MDevel::Hide=XML::SAX script_which_uses_xml_simple.pl

\s-1NOTE\s0. This module does not use Carp. As said before, denial dies.

This module is pretty trivial. It uses a code reference in @INC to get rid of specific modules during require - denying they can be successfully loaded and stopping the search before they have a chance to be found.

There are three alternative ways to include modules in the hidden list:

• setting @Devel::Hide::HIDDEN

• environment variable \s-1DEVEL_HIDE_PM\s0

• import()

Optionally, you can propagate the list of hidden modules to your process' child processes, by passing '-from:children' as the first option when you use() this module. This works by populating \*(C`PERL5OPT\*(C', and is incompatible with Taint mode, as explained in perlrun.

\s-1CAVEATS\s0

There is some interaction between \*(C`lib\*(C' and this module

use Devel::Hide qw(Module/ToHide.pm); use lib qw(my_lib);

In this case, 'my_lib' enters the include path before the Devel::Hide hook and if Module/ToHide.pm is found in 'my_lib', it succeeds.

Also for modules that were loaded before Devel::Hide, \*(C`require\*(C' and \*(C`use\*(C' succeeds.

Since 0.0005, Devel::Hide warns about modules already loaded.

$ perl -MDevel::Hide=Devel::Hide -e '' Devel::Hide: Too late to hide Devel/Hide.pm

\s-1EXPORTS\s0

Nothing is exported.

\s-1DEVEL_HIDE_PM\s0 - if defined, the list of modules is added

   to the list of hidden modules

\s-1DEVEL_HIDE_VERBOSE\s0 - on by default. If off, supresses

   the initial message which shows the list of hidden modules
   in effect

\s-1PERL5OPT\s0 - used if you specify '-from:children'

\*(L"perldoc -f require\*(R"

Test::Without::Module

Please report bugs via \s-1CPAN\s0 \s-1RT\s0 http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Devel-Hide <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Devel-Hide>.

Adriano R. Ferreira, <[email protected]>

with contributions from David Cantrell <[email protected]>

Copyright (C) 2005-2007 by Adriano R. Ferreira

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.