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Re: Which modules on the whole CPAN depends on this module?

by Corion (Patriarch)
on Jul 05, 2013 at 07:20 UTC ( [id://1042627]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Which modules on the whole CPAN depends on this module?

At the top of http://deps.cpantesters.org/ there is a link titled "Reverse lookup". It leads to http://deps.cpantesters.org/depended-on-by.pl, which I would imagine implements http://deps.cpantesters.org/ but in reverse.

Also, I'm under the impression that the problem of Regex::Grammars with 5.18 is reliance of a bug in Perl which was fixed. This then uncovered segfaults in the regex engine, which should be fixed in 5.18.1. There seems to be some discussion on p5p regarding this:

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Re^2: Which modules on the whole CPAN depends on this module?
by sedusedan (Pilgrim) on Jul 05, 2013 at 07:36 UTC
    As davido also pointed out, only immediate reverse dependencies are currently shown by deps.cpantesters.org as well as MetaCPAN. Recursively querying MetaCPAN API should be straightforward, albeit rather inefficient.
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      Patches welcome to make it recurse. Also to make it spew out XML.
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