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• cross referenced cpan (Score:2)

  by inkdroid (3294)

  Wow! Definitely post the URL when it is available.
• I'm doing it (Score:1)

  by melopt (2533)

  Hi,
  
  I was at YAPC::Europe last July, and I decided to try OODoc.
  
  OODoc requires a lot of documentation to be written out of the box, but beeing a lazy bastard, I subclassed it to generate documentation for me (basic stuff).
  
  I also do perl code parsing. If you like to compare code, or look at my code for it, email/jabber me at melo(at)isp.novis.pt.
  
  Looking forward to seeing this in action!

  --
  life is too short
• Why use regexes when you can use ... (Score:3, Informative)

  by broquaint (2964) on 2003.08.18 10:29 (#23259) Journal

  CPAN!

  Adam Kennedy has written PPI [cpan.org] which takes a good stab and parsing Perl with perl.

  --
  

  broquaint out

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  • Re:Why use regexes when you can use ... (Score:1)

    by claes (1758)

    The best parser/tokenizer would be perls. I haven't tried PPI yet, but I sure will.

    However, I'll release the code for the cross-referencer (and the rest of the project) to CPAN, so I might leave this to the community =)
• Module::Info (Score:2, Informative)

  by educated_foo (3106)

  You might also look at using Module::Info, which (AFAIK) grovels around a bit in the op-tree to gather information. On the downside, you probably have to install the modules to make full use of M::I. However, you might be able to attach this as a "trojan" on CPANTS.

  /s
  • Re:Module::Info (Score:1)

    by claes (1758)

    Module::Info can extract some information without loading the module, but to get what I need it has to load it so it's unfortunetly not an option.

    /me imagines a machine with all CPAN modules installed !
    • Re:Module::Info (Score:2, Interesting)

      by educated_foo (3106)

      Hence the suggestion to piggyback this on top of CPANTS. To test a module, you have to have enough of an installation to make it run and function. So after running the tests (if they pass), CPANTS could automatically run a function to gather Module::Info data to send back with the results. I'm not sure how bad the politics of such a move would be, but it seems like a natural way to distribute an otherwise expensive computation.

      /s
• Module::ExtractUse (Score:2, Informative)

  by domm (4030)

  Hi!
  
  For some part of Module::CPANTS::Generator, I wrote a parser (using Parse::RecDescent) that can parse (sort of good, I hope) a small aspect of Perl, namely "use" statements.
  
  The module is called Module-ExtractUse, it's on CPAN [cpan.org] and you can view the results in Module::CPANTS' "uses" field.
  
  You might find it interesting. I'm definitly interested in your results (and I assume they will flow into Module::CPANTS?)
  
  While we're at it, take a look at this: CPANTS Web Interface [domm.zsi.at]