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]].