I want Everything too

qbxk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Maybe this doesn't belong in this category, but seems like it'll do.

I want to build a site that is a clone of this, to serve a very different purpose - but include all these whizz-bang features. However, installing the available version of everything found at everydevel.com .. didn't really work for me, it also seems to be somewhat of a dead project.

After stumbling across Wat was the Architecture used in perlmonks it soon became apparent that i probably don't want the everything available over there anyhow.

Is this even supported? Are there clones of the perlmonks codebase? How to do so?

and btw, let it be known that in the README distributed with everything contains this quote

try installing
Bundle::Everything -- this should fetch the relevant modules from CPAN.pm.

now while that sounds like a reasonable proposition, and perhaps i'm misunderstanding something here, but that's not a very nice trick to play on the unsuspecting. see Bundle-Everything

It's not what you look like, when you're doin' what you’re doin'.
It's what you’re doin' when you’re doin' what you look like you’re doin'!
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Re: I want Everything too by defyance (Curate) on Feb 23, 2006 at 16:45 UTC
To my knowledge there are not any known perlmonks 'clones' or any how-to's on the subject... The best way to get on the road to Perlmonks functionality is to have a look at Fresh Nodeballs and maybe see if you can get some pointers from a pmdev or god. There are years of massive patches and hacks to the everything code to get perlmonks where it is today. You're going to have to hack away at it yourself, even when installing some of the nodeballs, to get close to that. I'd like to point out that the everything code, while insanely extensible, is a PITA. Take a look at the guts sometime, you'll see what I'm talking about. Be prepared for that... -- P.S. This is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.. -- Mitch Hedberg	[reply]

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Re: I want Everything too
by defyance (Curate) on Feb 23, 2006 at 16:45 UTC

The best way to get on the road to Perlmonks functionality is to have a look at Fresh Nodeballs and maybe see if you can get some pointers from a pmdev or god. There are years of massive patches and hacks to the everything code to get perlmonks where it is today. You're going to have to hack away at it yourself, even when installing some of the nodeballs, to get close to that.

I'd like to point out that the everything code, while *insanely* extensible, is a PITA. Take a look at the guts sometime, you'll see what I'm talking about. Be prepared for that...

--
P.S. This is what the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.. -- Mitch Hedberg

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