NAME
CPANPLUS::Shell::Curses - A Curses based shell for CPANPLUS
ABSTRACT
CPANPLUS::Shell::Curses is a graphical user interface to the newly developed CPANPLUS package
USAGE
Usually all operations will be performed on the currently selected and/or marked Module. Searching is done as incremental search, so first author then module gives you other results than first module than author. Reset searching/display with j.
For installing and updating the Shell leaves Curses mode. At the moment this is considered a feature, in order to answer module's questions about configuration.
KEYS
General
h detailed help
q exit
v version information
Search
a search by author(s)
A search modules by the author of the currently active module
m search by module(s)
M search modules in the same top level Namespace as the currently active one (i.e. if CPAN is active it will show you only modules CPAN::*)
N search modules in the same top and second level namespace as the currently active one (i.e. AI::Categorizer is active it will show you only the ones under AI::Categorizer)
o update check
j display all modules
k diplay installed modules
w show search cache
List window functions
/ does a search in the list window as well in the readme and help viewers
? does it the other way around
^C-A go to the beginning (also with HOME)
^C-E go to end of list (also with END)
PGDOWN one page down
PGUP one page up
Operations
i install selected module(s)
u uninstall selected module(s)
d download selected module(s)
r display readme of active module
c display test results for active module
y show perldoc of currently selected installed module
b write an autobundle of all your currently installed modules
z open command prompt
R reload installed selection
Local Administration
! eval a Perl expression
% execute a shell expression
g redraw screen
e add directories to your @INC
s set configuration options for this session
p print error stack
r reload CPAN indices
D show currently installed modules dependencies
S show some statistical information
Step by Step
For easy stepping through the installation steps, shortcuts are provided:
1 fetch modules
2 extract modules (not implemented yet)
3 make all
4 make test
5 make install
CONFIGURATION
To enter the configuration window, type 's'. All values which are either yes or no are shown with a Y or N value. To change this value just enter what you want it to be. ;-) Some special input is required for the options Makeflags, Makemakerflage and lib. The syntax for Makeflags and Makemakerflags is key=value, multiple keys can be seperated by : The syntax for Lib is a : seperated list of lib directories.
TODO
BUGS
Curses.pm 1.06 does not compile with Perl 5.8.0, a new release that fixes those bugs is expected soon
It is too slow :-)
Documentation needed
As it is a development version based on a development version of CPANPLUS please test it against the latest devel version of CPANPLUS. Afterwards feel free to contact me about any bugs.
AUTHOR
Marcus Thiesen (marcus@cpan.thiesenweb.de)