JSAN::Index - JavaScript Archive Network (JSAN) SQLite/CDBI Index
JSAN is the JavaScript Archive Network, a port of CPAN to JavaScript.
You can find the JSAN at http://openjsan.org.
As well as a flat text file index like CPAN, the JSAN index is also distributed as a DBD::SQLite database.
JSAN::Index is a Class::DBI wrapper built around the JSAN SQLite index.
JSAN::Index
It allow you to easily do all sorts of nifty things with the index in a simple and straight forward way.
Once loaded, most of the functionality of the index is accessed through the classes that implement the various objects in the index.
These are:
An author is a single human (or under certain very special circumstances a company or mailing list) that creates distributions and uploads them to the JSAN.
A distribution is a single software component that may go through a number of releases
A release is a compressed archive file containing a single version of a paricular distribution.
A library is a single class, or rather a "pseudo-namespace", that defines an interface to provide some functionality. Distributions often contain a number of libraries, making up a complete "API".
There are only a very limited number of utility methods available directly from the JSAN::Index class itself.
The dependency method creates and returns an dependency resolution object that is used by JSAN::Client to schedule which releases to install.
dependency
If the optional parameter 'build' is true, creates a build-time dependency resolve, which will additionally install releases only needed for testing.
Returns an Algorithm::Dependency object.
Bugs should be reported via the CPAN bug tracker at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=JSAN-Client
For other issues, contact the author.
Adam Kennedy <cpan@ali.as>, http://ali.as/
Copyright 2005, 2006 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
To install JSAN::Client, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm JSAN::Client
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install JSAN::Client
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.