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The Manned.org Source Code
--------------------------
This repository holds the source code of Manned.org. For a description of the
site, check out http://manned.org/info/about.
Ironically, documentation about how things work is completely lacking.
Requirements
General:
perl: A somewhat recent version (no idea which, due to my XS usage)
postgresql: Also a somewhat recent version
rust + cargo (1.13+)
www/ & lib/ & webs/: (Website)
DBI
DBD::Pg
TUWF
JSON::XS
AnyEvent
util/ & indexer/: (DB updating and package synchronisation stuff)
curl
psql
Contact
contact@manned.org

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# The Manned.org Source Code
This repository holds the source code of Manned.org. For a description of the
site, check out [https://manned.org/info/about](https://manned.org/info/about).
Ironically, documentation about how things work is completely lacking.
## Requirements
- perl: A somewhat recent version (no idea which, due to my XS usage)
- postgresql: Also a somewhat recent version
- rust + cargo (1.13+)
### Web front-end
- DBI
- DBD::Pg
- TUWF
- JSON::XS
- AnyEvent
### Man page indexer
- curl
- psql
## File structure
- **indexer/** -> The Rust program that scans package repositories for updates, fetches new packages and extracts the man pages.
- **lib/ManUtils/** -> Perl/XS helper module to format man pages into HTML (uses **web/**).
- **sql/** -> Database schema & updates.
- **util/** -> Cron job and scripts to run **indexer/** on the right repositories.
- **web/** -> Badly named Rust library to convert man pages into HTML.
- **www/** -> The web front-end.

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passed through <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/">groff</a> to
render them in (mostly) the same way as they are displayed in your terminal.
<br /><br />
This website is <a href="https://g.blicky.net/manned.git/">open source</a>
(MIT licensed) and written in a combination of Perl and Rust. The entire
PostgreSQL database is available for download (see "Database download"
below).
This website is <a href="https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/manned">open
source</a> (MIT licensed) and written in a combination of Perl and Rust. The
entire PostgreSQL database is available for download (see "Database
download" below).
_
end;
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<a href="/wget">wget's -c</a> or <a href="/curl">curl's -C</a>.
<br /><br />
The database schema is "documented" at <a
href="https://g.blicky.net/manned.git/tree/sql/schema.sql">schema.sql</a> in
the git repo. Note that these dumps don't constitute a stable API and, while
this won't happen frequently, incompatible schema changes or Postgres major
version bumps may occur.
href="https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/manned/src/branch/master/sql/schema.sql">schema.sql</a>
in the git repo. Note that these dumps don't constitute a stable API and,
while this won't happen frequently, incompatible schema changes or Postgres
major version bumps may occur.
_
end;
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lit 'All manual pages are copyrighted by their respective authors.
| <a href="/info/about">About manned.org</a>
| <a href="mailto:contact@manned.org">Contact</a>
| <a href="https://g.blicky.net/manned.git/">Source</a>';
| <a href="https://code.blicky.net/yorhel/manned">Source</a>';
end;
script type => 'text/javascript', src => '/man.js', '';
end;