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π ZoneMinder::Database π
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 π« ). Anyway. Buckle up bestie, we're reading a stub together.
β¨ NAME β¨
ZoneMinder::Database β a Perl extension for blah blah blah π
no fr that's what it says. blah blah blah. iconic behavior honestly.
πΈ SYNOPSIS πΈ
like, here's how you'd theoretically use it:
use ZoneMinder::Database;
blah blah blah
that's the whole plot. use ZoneMinder::Database; and thenβ¦ vibes. blah blah blah. chef's kiss of documentation excellence π
π¦ DESCRIPTION π¦
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 ππ 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 π
π«Ά EXPORT π«Ά
- None by default. β literally nothing gets exported unless you ask. zero. nada. None by default, bestie, that's the whole tea.
π₯ SEE ALSO π₯
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 π), 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 likeβ¦ there's no actual links here yet. the section is a to-do list. it's giving "unfinished homework" energy β
π AUTHOR π
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.
π COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE π
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 π
β οΈ quick vibe check: this whole page is a stub. it was auto-generated byh2xsand never filled in. so don't go looking for deep lore here β the lore isblah blah blah. no cap.
and that's the page!! π put together by perl v5.42.3, dated 1980-01-01 (yes really, 1980, she's vintage π), from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew. mwah, go touch some grass now ππ§π
π¦ where this page comes from
- nixos 26.05: zoneminder 1.36.39+git20261015_41b48ee
- nixpkgs unstable: zoneminder 1.38.6
- π girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms