Re^3: CPAN namespace hierarchy

You've described your use case.

That could easily be done by filtering the list of modules with a regular expression.

But you mentioned TK, hence you have more requirements than just running some regex.

Without knowing these requirements I can only guess.

(I can't comment on ELF)

For instance:

RAT has a foldable thread/post view.

You could translate those modules into such a tree.

You could use JS / CSS selectors to interactively filter such a tree.

But I don't think you'll invest in this. ;)

If yes you could use the js-console to interactively try it out.

HTH :)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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Re^4: CPAN namespace hierarchy by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 25, 2021 at 01:14 UTC
In the end I found https://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz which contains a list of CPAN packages - about 250000 entries. I opened the contained text file in an editor and searched for ELF. Turns out there aren't many entries. Some sort of tree/folding representation wouldn't actually have helped very much as it turns out. Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond	[reply]
Re^5: CPAN namespace hierarchy by LanX (Saint) on Jan 25, 2021 at 01:24 UTC
> Some sort of tree/folding representation wouldn't actually have helped very much as it turns out. The question is, would it have helped others? IOW is there a need? > Turns out there aren't many entries. Well ... searching CPAN for ELF is easy. I'm still puzzled what the tree view should display ... Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply]
Re^6: CPAN namespace hierarchy by GrandFather (Saint) on Jan 25, 2021 at 01:42 UTC
My original thought was to look for likely places an ELF reader module might fit in the CPAN namespace hierarchy so a tree browser that started with everything below the top level namespaces collapsed made some sense. I guess my mind blocked out the top level ELF namespace as being inappropriate at that level - even though I knew it was there from the simple search you mentioned. There is Discipulus's prior art for searching CPAN packages so maybe I don't need to reinvent that wheel? :-) Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond	[reply]
Re^5: CPAN namespace hierarchy by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 25, 2021 at 14:40 UTC
I wonder if you couldn't (pre-)process that into JSON that you could then drive a d3 treemap pretty quickly. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply]