Free cpan software for linux

CPAN::Cache is a Perl module abstract locally-cached logical subset of a CPAN mirror.

There have been any number of scripts and modules written that contain as part of their functionality some form of locally stored partial mirror of the CPAN dataset.

CPAN::Cache does the same thing, except that in addition it has the feature that the downloading and storage of CPAN data is all that it does, so it should not introduce any additional dependencies or bloat, and should be much easier to reuse that existing modules, which generally are more task-specific.

The intent is that this module will be usable by everything that is in the business of pulling modules from CPAN, storing them locally, and doing something with them.

In this way, it really does little other than mirror data from a remote URI, except that CPAN::Cache also provides some additional intelligence about which files are and are not static (will never change) which arent, and is typed specifically as a mirror of CPAN, instead of any other sort of mirror.

By building this module as a seperate distribution, it is hoped we can improve seperation of concerns in the CPAN-related modules and ensure cleaner, smaller, and more robust tools that interact with the CPAN in the most correct ways.

CPAN::Reporter is a Perl module to provides Test::Reporter support for CPAN.pm.

SYNOPSIS

From the CPAN shell:

cpan> install CPAN::Reporter
cpan> reload cpan
cpan> o conf init test_report

CPAN::Reporter is an add-on for the CPAN.pm module that uses Test::Reporter to send the results of module tests to the CPAN Testers project. Support for CPAN::Reporter is available in CPAN.pm as of version 1.88.

The goal of the CPAN Testers project (http://testers.cpan.org/) is to test as many CPAN packages as possible on as many platforms as possible. This provides valuable feedback to module authors and potential users to identify bugs or platform compatibility issues and improves the overall quality and value of CPAN.

One way individuals can contribute is to send test results for each module that they test or install. Installing CPAN::Reporter gives the option of automatically generating and emailing test reports whenever tests are run via CPAN.pm.

GETTING STARTED

The first step in using CPAN::Reporter is to install it using whatever version of CPAN.pm is already installed. CPAN.pm will be upgraded as a dependency if necessary.

cpan> install CPAN::Reporter

If CPAN.pm was upgraded, it needs to be reloaded.

cpan> reload cpan

If upgrading from a very old version of CPAN.pm, users may be prompted to renew their configuration settings, including the test_report option to enable CPAN::Reporter.

If not prompted automatically, users should manually initialize CPAN::Reporter support. After enabling CPAN::Reporter, CPAN.pm will automatically continue with interactive configuration of CPAN::Reporter options. (Remember to commit the CPAN configuration changes.)

cpan> o conf init test_report
cpan> o conf commit

Once CPAN::Reporter is enabled and configured, test or install modules with CPAN.pm as usual.

For example, to force CPAN to repeat tests for CPAN::Reporter to see how it works:

cpan> force test CPAN::Reporter

Test::CPANpm is a Perl module to test a distributions interaction with CPAN before uploading.

SYNOPSIS

use Test::CPANpm;
use Test::More qw(no_plan);

cpan_depends_ok(
[CGI, Module::Build, Acme::Wabbit],
got the right dependancies
);

cpan_depends_ok_force_missing(
[Some::Module::Build::Subclass, CGI, Module::Build, Acme::Wabbit],
[Some::Module::Build::Subclass],
got dependancies even though our Module::Build subclass is missing
);

Test::CPANpm fools CPAN.pm into thinking it has downloaded and unpacked your package, then has it attempt to generate a Makefile or Build script. After this process completes, it asks your CPAN module what dependancies it thinks exist.

If you just want to make sure your distribution is packaged in a way that is good for CPAN, consider using Test::Distribution instead. The main time that Test::CPANpm is useful is when you depend on modules inside your Makefile.PL or Build.PL script and you want to make sure that you degrade gracefully if those modules are not available.

CPAN::WWW::Testers is present CPAN testers data.

SYNOPSIS

my $t = CPAN::WWW::Testers->new();
$t->directory($directory);
$t->generate;

The distribution can present CPAN Testers data. cpan-testers is a group which was initially setup by Graham Barr and Chris Nandor. The objective of the group is to test as many of the distributions on CPAN as possible, on as many platforms as possible. The ultimate goal is to improve the portability of the distributions on CPAN, and provide good feedback to the authors.

CPAN Testers is really a mailing list with a web interface, testers.cpan.org. testers.cpan.org was painfully slow. I happened to be doing metadata stuff for Module::CPANTS. This is the result. Its alpha code, but using it anyone can host their CPAN Testers website.

Unpack the distribution and look at examples/generate.pl. Wait patiently. Send patches and better design.

At the moment I am running the output of this at http://testers.astray.com/

INTERFACE

The Constructor

new
Instatiates the object CPAN::WWW::Testers.

Methods

directory
Accessor to set/get the directory where the webpages are to be created. Note this also where the local copy of testers.db will reside.

generate
Initiates the $obj->download and $obj->write method calls.

download
Downloads the latest article updates from the NNTP server for the cpan-testers newgroup. Articles are then stored in the news.db SQLite database.

database
Path to the SQLite database.

write
Reads the local copy of the testers.db, and creates the alphabetic index, distribution and main index web pages, together with the YAML and RSS pages for each distribution.

MPCA is a comprehensive suite of tools for doing discrete principal components analysis on data sets of size 100Mb or more. Scaling is done using sparse vectors, multi-threading, memory mapping, and other POSIX tricks.
Reports, file dumping utilities and other utilities are included. The general problem of discrete components analysis is variously called grade of membership, PLSA, non-neg.matrix factorization, multinomial admixtures, LDA, and multinomial PCA.
Enhancements:
- Some linkages to the ALVIS system allow the software to be used to create topic models and annotate linguistically tagged content.
- Some cleanups with the linkBags Perl utilities have been moved out to CPAN.
- To see some of the models in action, visit the search demos at.

Pastebot is an irc bot that saves channels from large amounts of pasted material. Text is pasted into a web form, and the bot announces an URL where it can be read. Interested people can partake in the joy without the whole channel scrolling to hell.

You can install program with following commands:

make install-cpan
make install

The default installation structure:

/usr/local/etc/pastebot/ Configuration files
/usr/local/share/pastebot Libraries
/usr/local/bin Executables

perlfaq3 Perl module contains programming tools.

How do I do (anything)?

Have you looked at CPAN (see perlfaq2)? The chances are that someone has already written a module that can solve your problem. Have you read the appropriate manpages? Heres a brief index:

Basics perldata, perlvar, perlsyn, perlop, perlsub
Execution perlrun, perldebug
Functions perlfunc
Objects perlref, perlmod, perlobj, perltie
Data Structures perlref, perllol, perldsc
Modules perlmod, perlmodlib, perlsub
Regexes perlre, perlfunc, perlop, perllocale
Moving to perl5 perltrap, perl
Linking w/C perlxstut, perlxs, perlcall, perlguts, perlembed
Various http://www.cpan.org/misc/olddoc/FMTEYEWTK.tgz
(not a man-page but still useful, a collection
of various essays on Perl techniques)

A crude table of contents for the Perl manpage set is found in perltoc.

DB::Appgen is a Perl interface which includes both function oriented and object oriented interfaces to manipulate data in APPGEN Custom Suite databases.

All this was made in about four hours including reading perlxstut manpage, so do not expect something pretty. Although it appears to be working OK in my tests.

Ill be doing some bigger data manipulations using this extension in the next couple of days and I will probably build some kind of higher level interface. If you dont see it on CPAN yet feel free to ask me about it.