Bug#604943: ITP: libclass-load-perl -- module for loading modules by name

[gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Owner: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-perl@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : libclass-load-perl
  Version         : 0.06
  Upstream Author : Shawn M Moore, <sartak at bestpractical.com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Load/
* License         : Artistic or GPL-1+
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : module for loading modules by name

"require EXPR" only accepts Class/Name.pm style module names, not
Class::Name. For that, Class::Load provides "load_class 'Class::Name'".

It's often useful to test whether a module can be loaded, instead of throwing
an error when it's not available. For that, Class::Load provides
"try_load_class 'Class::Name'".

Finally, sometimes it is important to know whether a particular class has
been loaded. Asking %INC is an option, but that will miss inner packages and
any class for which the filename does not correspond to the package name. For
that, this module provides "is_class_loaded 'Class::Name'".