The Grand Perspective on CPAN

Not that I'd like this to turn into Reddit, but I thought that this is relevant (yet off-beat) enough to be posted in this section.

From the author's page:

GrandPerspective is a small utility application for Mac OS X that graphically shows the disk usage within a file system. It can help you to manage your disk, as you can easily spot which files and folders take up the most space. It uses a so called tree map for visualization. Each file is shown as a rectangle with an area proportional to the file's size. Files in the same folder appear together, but their placement is otherwise arbitrary.

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Wouldn't it be nice to have this graph fully annotated? It could show the module name and author as a tooltip when hovering over a certain area. I'd certainly like to know where some of those big squares are from.

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Re: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by $self (Friar) on Feb 23, 2009 at 11:54 UTC
Yes, would be nice to see a fully annotated one... WinDirStat and Sequoiaview are two free windows programs that do a similar job as GrandPerspective. For linux there's KDirStat (or du -k \| sort -nr :)	[reply]
Re^2: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by wazoox (Prior) on Feb 23, 2009 at 17:46 UTC
For the Gnome users, there's Baobab.	[reply]
Re: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2009 at 20:23 UTC
Try the following commands to get (an approximation of) the largest files and directories in CPAN. rsync -rvz cpan.pair.com::CPAN/ > list perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; my %h; while(<>){ chomp; /^\S{10}/ +or next; my $n = substr $_,43; substr($_,11) =~ /^\s(\d+)/ or die; m +y $s = $1; while ($n =~ m"/\|$"g) { my $p = $`; $p =~ m"authors/id/.(? +:/..)?$" and next; $h{$p} += $s; } } warn 0+keys(%h); for my $n (reve +rse+(sort { $h{$b} <=> $h{$a} } keys%h)[0..9999]) { printf "%10.0f %s +\n", $h{$n}, $n; }' list > sizes [download] The first command downloads the full directory listing (not the files) from a CPAN mirror server, this is about 33 megabytes uncompressed currently. The second lists the 10_000 largest files and directories (omitting some uninteresting ones) from this to the file `sizes`. It turns out that the author with the largest total file size is NWCLARK with 224 megs of files, then GRAHAMC, RGARCIA, TPEDERSE in this order. The largest single file is `authors/id/G/GR/GRAHAMC/SiePerl-5.8.8-bin-1.0-Win32.INSTALL.exe`, 34 megabytes large. Here's a copy of the last few lines of output. Read more... (17 kB) Update:* I have posted the generalization of this code to rsyncsize -- Largest directories on a remote file system. Update 2011-12-17: CPAN - As Seen From Space!	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by belg4mit (Prior) on Feb 26, 2009 at 03:03 UTC
Looks like some people need to be made aware of backpan, and cull their folders :-P It also seems kind of odd to store the perl source in pumpkings' folders... `-- In Bob We Trust, All Others Bring Data.`	[reply]
Re: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 25, 2009 at 19:43 UTC
I just use `du -ax path \| sort -n`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: The Grand Perspective on CPAN by pemungkah (Priest) on Feb 24, 2009 at 20:15 UTC
Disk Inventory X does do the floating tooltip biz, as well as letting you delete stuff, updating the map afterwards. One could use CPAN::Mini and then run one of these on after the local repository was created. Might be quite interesting.	[reply]


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