CPAN, Diced And Sliced
This is a little tool to navigate CPAN. As yet, most of the development is on the back end systems so there's not much visible on the front end. But you'll love it once there is. Here are some of the planned features:
- Indexing of BackPAN as well as CPAN to better see a package's history. DarkPAN is left as an exercise for the reader.
- Display of inheritance hierarchies both within and across distributions.
- Inlining of superclass documentation. No more need to have a half-dozen browser tabs open just to see what methods one class has.
- Comprehensive author pages, for those ego trips. (But otherwise less prominence on who wrote a module, since users don't actually care.)
- Search that actually works, or at least sucks less hard.
- Anything else that seemed like a good idea at the time when drunk…
Bot food: authors, distributions.