Bug#215521: RFP: perlindex -- index and query perl manual pages (installed by debian or cpan)
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : perlindex
Version : 1.301
Upstream Author : Ulrich Pfeifer <ULPFR@cpan.org>
* URL : http://search.cpan.org/~ulpfr/perlindex-1.301/
* License : Unspecified
Description : index and query perl manual pages (installed by debian or cpan)
Perlindex is a program to index and search the perl documentation.
An index database must be built that will store keywords for *all*
perl and installed modules man pages.
Then perlindex can be run and will present the user the most likely
choise for documentation.
Example:
$ perlindex threads
1 3.132 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlothrtut.pod
2 3.132 share/perl/5.8.0/Thread.pm
3 3.132 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlthrtut.pod
4 1.914 share/perl/5.8.0/Thread/Queue.pm
5 1.096 share/perl/5.8.0/Thread/Semaphore.pm
6 1.044 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlirix.pod
7 0.841 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perl5005delta.pod
8 0.817 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perltru64.pod
9 0.702 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlfork.pod
a 0.626 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perldgux.pod
b 0.522 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlhpux.pod
c 0.502 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlguts.pod
d 0.430 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perl56delta.pod
e 0.420 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perldelta.pod
f 0.392 share/perl/5.8.0/pod/perlaix.pod
Enter Number or 'q'>
The licence is not specified in the README or in the source code. The
code is copyrighted.
Cheers
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux komarr.grenoble.hp.com 2.4.19-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 19 00:58:50 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
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