ZoneMin...trol::3S(3)

πŸ“¦ version 1.38.6, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

πŸ’… ZoneMinder::Database πŸ’…

ok so before we even start β€” this page lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation section, and the page itself is ZoneMin...trol::3S(3) (yes the name is literally truncated with dots, that's not me being lazy, that's just how it got shipped 🫠). Anyway. Buckle up bestie, we're reading a stub together.


✨ NAME ✨

ZoneMinder::Database β€” a Perl extension for blah blah blah πŸ’€

no fr that's what it says. blah blah blah. iconic behavior honestly.


🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

like, here's how you'd theoretically use it:

use ZoneMinder::Database;
blah blah blah

that's the whole plot. use ZoneMinder::Database; and then… vibes. blah blah blah. chef's kiss of documentation excellence πŸŽ€


πŸ¦‹ DESCRIPTION πŸ¦‹

okay so this is the stub documentation for ZoneMinder, and it was created by h2xs β€” you know, that tool that scaffolds stuff for you. and ngl, it looks like the author of the extension was negligent enough to leave the stub unedited 😭😭 the manpage is calling them out directly, it's giving public humiliation.

and then, the actual description content:

Blah blah blah.

that's it. that's the description. blah blah blah. i'm obsessed with the audacity πŸ’…

🫢 EXPORT 🫢

  • None by default. β€” literally nothing gets exported unless you ask. zero. nada. None by default, bestie, that's the whole tea.

πŸ”₯ SEE ALSO πŸ”₯

okay so this section is entirely a template telling you what you should put here, which is honestly so funny. it says: mention other useful documentation such as the documentation of related modules, or operating system documentation (such as man pages in UNIX β€” hey, like this one πŸ‘€), or any relevant external documentation such as RFCs or standards.

then it's like: if you have a mailing list set up for your module, mention it here.

and also: if you have a web site set up for your module, mention it here.

so like… there's no actual links here yet. the section is a to-do list. it's giving "unfinished homework" energy ⭐


πŸ‘‘ AUTHOR πŸ‘‘

Juan Manuel Castro, <juanmanuel.castro@gmail.com> β€” yes the angle brackets are part of it, that's just how email addresses get formatted in manpages, iykyk.


Copyright (C) 2014 Juan Manuel Castro

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

so yeah β€” free software, same terms as Perl itself, 5.8.3 or literally any later Perl 5 you happen to have lying around. slay, very permissive of them πŸ’–


⚠️ quick vibe check: this whole page is a stub. it was auto-generated by h2xs and never filled in. so don't go looking for deep lore here β€” the lore is blah blah blah. no cap.

and that's the page!! 🌈 put together by perl v5.42.3, dated 1980-01-01 (yes really, 1980, she's vintage πŸ’€), from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. mwah, go touch some grass now πŸ“πŸ§šπŸ’œ

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