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CPAN-Digger-0.08
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/ CPAN::Digger

NAME

CPAN::Digger - To dig CPAN

SYNOPSIS

This module is the the web application running at http://.... You can use the interface by browsing there.

For internal usage follow the SETUP section.

SETUP

Download the tar.gz file. Open it and install all its dependencies.

Running perl script\cpan_digger.pl will create a local database using the module given in the directory given with the --dir option.

Running CPAN-Digger-WWW.pl will launch a stand-alone web server.

CPAN::Mini

quick instruction for using CPAN::Mini

- minicpan -l /home/gabor/Downloads/cpan -r http://cpan.pair.com/ ftp://cpan.hexten.net/ - allow the installation of CPAN::Digger and let the indexer copy all the files necessary to run the operation

Proc::Daemon does not show the documentation http://cpandigger.org/dist/Proc-Daemon

http://ontwik.com/perl/perl-programming-best-practices/

Using unzipped releases: sudo mkdir /var/www/cpan-digger sudo mkdir /var/www/cpan-digger/logs sudo chmod a+w /var/www/cpan-digger/logs sudo mkdir /var/www/cpan-digger/digger sudo chown gabor.gabor /var/www/cpan-digger/digger cd /var/www/cpan-digger/ sudo tar xzf CPAN-Digger-0.02.tar.gz sudo mkdir CPAN-Digger-0.02/logs sudo chmod a+w CPAN-Digger-0.02/logs edit the environments/production.yml file and set the path to the database to /var/www/cpan-digger/digger/digger.db

Indexing

CPAN indexes:

  authors/01mailrc.txt.gz by Parse::CPAN::Authors (we don't use this) (CPAN.pm uses)
  authors/00whois.xml     by Parse::CPAN::Whois  (superset of the above)
  modules/02packages.details.txt.gz  by Parse::CPAN::Packages   (CPAN.pm uses)
                            also by CPAN::PackageDetails
  modules/03modlist.data.gz   (CPAN.pm uses)

Word indexing (planned)

For each distribution split up the name and each part of the name becomes a word

For each module name probably the parts of the name might be words though the last part should be the most significants

META.yml might have some keywords stored

Names of the functions / methods

Gull text indexing of the POD for each module

Various sections might have different weight.

Later we will allow users of the site to add keywords to the modules/distributions

Store each keyword in lowercase only and map everything to lowercase for each word include where it could be found

   word    type_of_source       the source
   cgi     distro               CGI-Simple
   cgi     distro               CGI-Application
   cgi     module               CGI::Simple
   cgi     module               CGI::Application

Projects

CPAN::Digger is (going to be) capable of processing non-CPAN projects as well. We are still trying to design how that should work. Let's start with one example:

Dreamwidth http://dreamwidth.org uses Mercurial to maintain their source code. To check out their main repository type:

  hg clone http://hg.dwscoalition.org/dw-free/

projects file: Name: DW-Free will be used as the distribution Version: 1.0 some projects might want to index several versions, this field can be used to indicated that Author: DREAMWIDTH will be used instead of the PAUSEID (a leading underscore can ensure there is no conflict with real (even future) PAUSEIDs) Path: /path/to/source path to where the source code lives (CPAN::Digger will copy the files from there) Description: some text not used by the digger

Currently the Digger won't try to update the source directory using the VCS tools.

AUTHOR

Gabor Szabo http://szabgab.com/

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Gabor Szabo gabor@szabgab.com

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.

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