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Leon Brocard (hi! :) did some graphing of various Perl things back in 2001 or so. I thought I'd also do something alike[0]. It can be very hard to follow what ends up actually in memory when you "use Some::Package;" - especially because that depends on numerous factors like Perl version, third-party packages, architecture, etc. graph-perl-usage is a little script that uses various modules/programs to generate usage graphs of Perl package. That is, it tracks which package uses or requires which and puts that into a graph. Recursively, if you wish so. Here are two examples for vars.pm for 5.8.6 and blead (as ASCII in this mail, but you can have HTML/ASCII (for small graphs) or SVG/PNG (via dot): # ./gen_graph --recurse=vars --versions --format=ascii +--------------------+ +----------+ | vars | --> | strict | | v1.01 | +----------+ +--------------------+ | | v +--------------------+ +----------+ +-------+ +----------+ | warnings::register | --> | warnings | --> | Carp | --> | Exporter | | v1.00 | | v1.03 | | v1.03 | | v5.58 | +--------------------+ +----------+ +-------+ +----------+ # with --inc=/home/te/src/blead/lib: +--------------------+ +----------+ | vars | --> | strict | | v1.01 | +----------+ +--------------------+ | | v +--------------------+ +----------+ | warnings::register | --> | warnings | | v1.00 | | v1.04 | +--------------------+ +----------+ Please see: http://bloodgate.com/perl/graph/usage/ for the details and more examples, including nifty images. The heuristic to detect use/require might be a bit fuzzy, and there might be bugs or roam for improvement. In any way, I'd like feedback. :o) Have fun, Tels PS: Yes, you can put the entire (blead or otherwise) Perl source into. It take a while and the resulting PNG/SVG is huuge, but it is possible. But don't blame me if you go cross-eyed staring at the output :-D 0: Although I couldn't find his actual code/examples/slides, from the excerpts I gather that Leon did not already do what I did. Hopefully. Nonetheless, re-inventing the wheel is fun :) - -- Signed on Sun Jul 10 14:16:05 2005 with key 0x93B84C15. Visit my photo gallery at http://bloodgate.com/photos/ PGP key on http://bloodgate.com/tels.asc or per email. "I can imagine what you're thinking though: this girl keeps her brains in her backside! But actually only the more primitive parts of my brain are in my butt. The more interesting parts are kept in a PC - my spinal cord is actually an RS232 lead!" - Lucy, the OrangUtan Robot Girl http://tinyurl.com/3fv6z -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBQtEXCHcLPEOTuEwVAQGuoAf/R80WYjN6kBVHY9E6Ynhola7wC9IiOP5D hoeSPia5C59p8cnSI/QlY66MT4YYuPof2G6VZ17mOAS42FRyghhOP0uDLgsOh04j HB7GQ4JPDUCZYn9lPs1RjgsyFs0GenZUy4MsUp6XVvnOKB2V0uVl+aljGV5WDrku x6SJDmw+cblGY0ALPwk/8cS6j9+8g2x9+//gdjGjy1ZWrFJGeQzQt4R/L6QP9aLD ZOf/VD5tH2ua44nPQK12unS0TQ3Z1u/iqgiIfQMAR3FzPBl+6ti8ZmAbzVq3pPpU fe2Kdb2RdxS8wb7yrINRTfs+jgyUqWWnwv124fFhTv4g1+7yEr0NYw== =hIJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
