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In the end I found https://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz which contains a list of CPAN packages - about 250000 entries. I opened the contained text file in an editor and searched for ELF. Turns out there aren't many entries. Some sort of tree/folding representation wouldn't actually have helped very much as it turns out.

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Re^5: CPAN namespace hierarchy
by LanX (Saint) on Jan 25, 2021 at 01:24 UTC
    > Some sort of tree/folding representation wouldn't actually have helped very much as it turns out.

    The question is, would it have helped others? IOW is there a need?

    > Turns out there aren't many entries.

    Well ... searching CPAN for ELF is easy.

    I'm still puzzled what the tree view should display ...

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      My original thought was to look for likely places an ELF reader module might fit in the CPAN namespace hierarchy so a tree browser that started with everything below the top level namespaces collapsed made some sense. I guess my mind blocked out the top level ELF namespace as being inappropriate at that level - even though I knew it was there from the simple search you mentioned.

      There is Discipulus's prior art for searching CPAN packages so maybe I don't need to reinvent that wheel? :-)

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Re^5: CPAN namespace hierarchy
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 25, 2021 at 14:40 UTC

    I wonder if you couldn't (pre-)process that into JSON that you could then drive a d3 treemap pretty quickly.

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