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.