"The Goo" helps you stick "Things" together in your working environment.

Things include Perl modules, Perl scripts, log files, javascripts, configuration files, database tables, templates etc.

The Goo records a "Trail" as you jump quickly from Thing to Thing in a simple, text-based console. It remembers how you associate Things in your environment.

Accelerate your work by quickly traversing the Trail of associations between Things.

To see how The Goo works take the tour: http://thegoo.org/goo-tour.pdf.

INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

THINGS

Each type of Thing has a ".goo" configuration file.

The .goo file lists the locations where Things of this type can be found (e.g., directory, database) and the actions that can be performed on a Thing (e.g., [E]dit = Editor.pm).

Perl modules, for example, have a ".pm" suffix so this type of Thing is defined in the pm.goo configuration file. The pm.goo file includes a list of directory locations where Perl modules can be found and a list of actions that can be performed on Perl modules. These actions relate to the "action handlers" that carry out the action (e.g., E[X]it = Exiter.pm).

General action handlers are located in the top-level Goo/ directory (e.g., [Z]one -> Zone.pm) and Thing-specific action handlers are found in a Goo/Thing/ subdirectory based on suffix. Perl modules, for example, use a special editor ([E]dit = Goo::Thing::pm::Editor.pm) and the action handler is located in the Goo/Thing/pm directory.

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Goo

You can also look for information at:

        TheGoo.org
                http://thegoo.org
                http://blog.thegoo.org

Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Goo

CPAN Request Tracker:

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Goo

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005 Nigel Hamilton

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.