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Diff and Grep Now Available on search.cpan.org

Simon on 2004-01-15T11:01:00

samtregar writes "I'm proud to announce that search.cpan.org now includes two new tools of my creation: diff and grep. To get to these tools, go to a distribution page (ex. HTML-Template-2.6) and click on the "Tools" link. This will bring you to the tools page where you can run diff and grep on the module's source code.

I'd like to thank Graham Barr for allowing me the opportunity to add these features and, of course, for creating and maintaining search.cpan.org. CPAN just wouldn't be the same without it!"

That "diff" link

samtregar on 2004-01-15T12:56:05

was supposed to be: diff.

-sam

Re:That "diff" link

pudge on 2004-01-15T17:18:09

Updated ... thanks for the link, and for the tools themselves. Very nice, and very useful.

Cool!

jbisbee on 2004-01-15T15:40:05

Very cool, thanks Sam!

very nice

dc2000 on 2004-01-15T20:18:29

Nice work.

Integration into main pages...

jcavanaugh on 2004-01-15T21:38:52

Could we get this diff option integrated into the main page for a release.

As an example Im thinking like on the http://search.cpan.org/user/gaas/Image-Info-1.16/ so I could diff the source between say 1.16 & 1.15 without downloading the module.

Great tool, just my $0.02 that might make it more available to folks.

--
John Cavanaugh

Re:Integration into main pages...

jcavanaugh on 2004-01-15T21:55:37

Geez, forget it, Im an idiot...

Also check out "Build diff" from Module::Build

kwilliams on 2004-01-15T23:36:37

Module::Build also has a feature similar to this - if you invoke the "diff" action, it'll diff the version you already have installed against the version it's about to install.