CPANGRAPH(1p)

✨ CPANGRAPH ✨

okay bestie, so this is cpangraph from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual (it's a 1p page, iykyk 💅). It's literally the lil tool that draws you a graph of CPAN dependencies. no cap. 🦋

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cpangraph — Generate dependency chain graphs for CPAN modules 💖

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

Version 0.12 ✨

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

cpangraph [options] <file>

  Options:
    --help            display a brief help message
    --perl=VERSION    filter those available in Perl core
    --phase=PHASE     filter those needed for a phase (e.g., build)
    --rankdir         controls the GraphViz 'rankdir' variable
    --reverse         graph reverse dependencies (dependents)
    --verbose         display additional debugging information

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --help — prints a brief help message to the standard output and then dips. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🫡
• --perl=VERSION — this one shows you the dependencies that have been chillin' in Perl core since the VERSION you hand it. 🍓 heads up tho: it does not currently know if a module got removed from core — but honestly that's an unlikely occurrence, so we move. 🧚 write your Perl versions like this:

5.008008 # for versions >= 5.8.8
5.010    # for versions >= 5.10

• --phase=PHASE — shows the dependencies needed for a given module's install-or-runtime PHASE. the available phases are:
  • runtime: required whenever the module is used 👑
  • build: required to build the module 🔥
  • configure: these are required while preparing the module for build ✨
• --rankdir — in GraphViz, the 'rankdir' attribute is the thing that controls which direction the nodes link up. if you set this, the graph goes left -> right instead of the default up-down linking. main character energy honestly. 💜
• --reverse — makes a graph of the reverse dependencies of a package. aka the packages that depend on it, aka the dependent packages. it's giving "who's obsessed with me" 😭💖
• --verbose — spills extra output that's useful while you're debugging. 🐛

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

this script uses the CPAN Database to build a graph of a package's dependencies — or its reverse dependencies (the dependent packages). periodt. 📊✨

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org> 💖

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🦋 SUPPORT 🦋

for support details, bestie, please look at "perldoc CPANDB" and use the corresponding support methods. 🫶

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⭐ LICENSE ⭐

this has the same copyright and licensing terms as CPANDB. slay. 💅

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and that's the whole page, babe 🎀 — this was CPANGRAPH(1p) from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-10-01, and yes it really is that cute. bye bestie, go graph something ✨🌈🦋