NAME
Graph-Dependency - Generate dependency graphs for a Perl package.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
REQUIRES
You need the following:
Perl (well, duh!)
wget (to acceess search.cpan.org)
Module::CoreList
Graph::Easy (for the graphs)
graphviz (for png output)
USAGES
./graph YAML
./graph Graph::Easy html
./graph Graph::Easy png svg html
The output will be written to out/Foo-Bar/
. The META.yml file for each module will be written to tmp/
.
BUGS
The META.yml files are cached, but there is no mechanism to invalidate or re-validate them. If you want to refresh the data, delete everything in
tmp/
.Modules without a META.yml file will not generate dependencies. Parsing of Makefile.PL is not implemented yet.
Modules that are in the core of any Perl version are marked as "in-core". If you have an older Perl, you might still need to install that module first to satisfy the dependencies.
Getting the author name from the package requires a needless trip to http://search.cpan.org and might even fail. It would be cool (*wink* *nudge*) if search.cpan.org could redirect to the proper file when given:
http://search.cpan.org/src/FOO-BAR/META.yml
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2006 by Tels at bloodgate.com
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms of the GPL version 2.