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+CPANHQ is a new project that "aims to be a community-driven,
+meta-data-enhanced alternative to such sites as
+[[http://search.cpan.org][search.cpan.org]] and
+[[http://kobesearch.cpan.org/][kobesearch.cpan.org]].
+
+I believe that a good vizualisation can help to have a better
+understanding of datas. One of the missing thing on the actual
+search.cpan.org is the lack of informations about a distribution's
+dependencies. So my first contribution to the CPANHQ project was to add
+such informations.
+
+<img src='/imgs/cpanhq-dep.webp' alt='cpanhq deps' align=left'>
+
+For each distributions, a graph is generated for the this distribution.
+For this, I use
+[[http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Graph::Easy][Graph::Easy]] and data
+available from the CPANHQ database. I alsa include a simple list of the
+dependencies after the graph.
+
+Only the first level dependencies are displayed, as the distribution's
+metadata are analysed when the request is made. I could follow all the
+dependencies when the request is made, but for some distribution it
+could take a really long time, and it's not suitable for this kind of
+services.
+
+*edit*: you can find
+[[http://github.com/bricas/cpanhq/tree/master][CPANHQ on GitHub]].