NAME
CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN - MetaCPAN source implementation
VERSION
version 0.06
SYNOPSIS
# In the CPANPLUS shell
CPAN Terminal> s conf no_update 1
CPAN Terminal> s conf source_engine CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN
CPAN Terminal> s saveDESCRIPTION
CPANPLUS::Internals::Source::MetaCPAN is a http://metacpan.org/ source implementation.
It is highly experimental.
Usually CPANPLUS retrieves the CPAN index files, extracts them and builds an in-memory index of every module listed on CPAN. As you can imagine, this is quite memory intensive.
This source implementation does things slightly different.
Instead of building an in-memory index, it queries the http://metacpan.org/ website for module/distribution/author information as and when it is required by CPANPLUS.
CAVEATS
There are some caveats.
As shown in the "SYNOPSIS" you must set the CPANPLUS configuration variable no_update to a true value to use this source engine. This prevents CPANPLUS from attempting to update CPAN indexes.
Attempting to do searches and getting a list of out of date modules in CPANPLUS are incredibly slow due the million or so web accesses that are incurred.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Chris Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Chris Williams and Jos Boumans.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.