CONTENTS

• NAME
• VERSION
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• RECOMMENDED MODULES
  • Task::Kensho::Async: Async Programming
  • Task::Kensho::CLI: Useful Command-line Tools
  • Task::Kensho::Config: Config Modules
  • Task::Kensho::DBDev: Database Development
  • Task::Kensho::Dates: Date Modules
  • Task::Kensho::Email: Email
  • Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV: Excel/CSV
  • Task::Kensho::Exceptions: Exception Handling
  • Task::Kensho::Hackery: Script Hackery
  • Task::Kensho::Logging: Logging
  • Task::Kensho::ModuleDev: Module Development
  • Task::Kensho::OOP: Object Oriented Programming
  • Task::Kensho::Scalability: Scalability
  • Task::Kensho::Testing: Testing
  • Task::Kensho::Toolchain: Basic Toolchain
  • Task::Kensho::WebCrawling: Web Crawling
  • Task::Kensho::WebDev: Web Development
  • Task::Kensho::XML: XML Development
• INSTALLING
• LIMITATIONS
• SEE ALSO
• SUPPORT
• AUTHOR
• CONTRIBUTORS
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

#NAME

Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

#VERSION

version 0.41

#SYNOPSIS

> cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho

#DESCRIPTION

Task::Kensho is a list of recommended, widely used and best-in-class modules for Enlightened Perl development. CPAN is wonderful, but there are too many wheels and you have to pick and choose amongst the various competing technologies.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensho:

Kenshō (見性) (C. Wu) is a Japanese term for enlightenment experiences - most commonly used within the confines of Zen Buddhism - literally meaning "seeing one's nature"[1] or "true self."[2] It generally "refers to the realization of nonduality of subject and object."[3]

The plan is for Task::Kensho to be a rough testing ground for ideas that go into among other things the Enlightened Perl Organisation Extended Core (EPO-EC).

The modules that are bundled by Task::Kensho are broken down into several categories and are still being considered. They are all taken from various top 100 most used perl modules lists and from discussions with various subject matter experts in the Perl Community. That said, this bundle does not follow the guidelines established for the EPO-EC for peer review via industry advisers.

Starting in 2011, Task::Kensho split its sub-groups of modules into individually-installable tasks. Each Task::Kensho sub-task is listed at the beginning of its section in this documentation.

When installing Task::Kensho itself, you will be asked to install each sub-task in turn, or you can install individual tasks separately. These individual tasks will always install all their modules by default. This facilitates the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve.

#RECOMMENDED MODULES

#Task::Kensho::Async: Async Programming

#Future

represent an operation awaiting completion

#IO::Async

Asynchronous event-driven programming

#MCE

Many-Core Engine for Perl providing parallel processing capabilities

#Mojo::IOLoop

Minimalistic event loop

#POE

Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

#Parallel::ForkManager

A simple parallel processing fork manager

#Task::Kensho::CLI: Useful Command-line Tools

#App::Ack

A grep-like text finder

#App::Nopaste

Easy access to any pastebin

#Module::CoreList

What modules shipped with versions of perl

#Reply

reply - read, eval, print, loop, yay!

#Task::Kensho::Config: Config Modules

#Config::Any

Load configuration from different file formats, transparently

#Config::General

Generic Config Module

#JSON::MaybeXS

wrapper around the most current and fast JSON backends

#Task::Kensho::DBDev: Database Development

#DBD::SQLite

Self Contained RDBMS in a DBI Driver

#DBI

Database independent interface for Perl

#DBIx::Class

Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.

#DBIx::Class::Schema::Loader

Dynamic definition of a DBIx::Class::Schema

#SQL::Translator

Manipulate structured data definitions (SQL and more)

#Task::Kensho::Dates: Date Modules

#DateTime

A date and time object

#Time::Moment

A fast immutable object representing a date and time

#Time::ParseDate

Date parsing both relative and absolute

#Time::Piece

A date and time object based on localtime or gmtime

#Task::Kensho::Email: Email

#Email::MIME::Kit

The Swiss army chainsaw of assembling email messages

#Email::Sender

A library for sending email

#Email::Simple

A simple email object. No, really!

#Email::Stuffer

A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails

#Email::Valid

Check validity of Internet email addresses

#Task::Kensho::ExcelCSV: Excel/CSV

#Excel::Writer::XLSX

Create spreadsheets in the XLSX format

#Spreadsheet::Read

Read the data from a spreadsheet

#Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple

Create XLS documents easily

#Text::CSV_XS

Manipulate comma-separated values (CSV)

#Task::Kensho::Exceptions: Exception Handling

#Syntax::Keyword::Try

try/catch/finally with full syntax support for control statements

#Try::Tiny

Lightweight exception handling that handles the vagaries of $@.

#autodie

Make builtins and other functions die instead of returning undef on failure.

#Task::Kensho::Hackery: Script Hackery

These packages are included less for production work and more for whippitupitude. They reflect packages that people have found incredibly useful for prototyping and debugging before reducing down to a production script.

#IO::All

IO::All combines all of the best Perl IO modules into a single nifty object oriented interface to greatly simplify your everyday Perl IO idioms.

#Smart::Comments

Comments that do more than just sit there

#Term::ProgressBar::Simple

Simple progress bars

#ojo

Fun one-liners with Mojo

#Task::Kensho::Logging: Logging

#Log::Any

Bringing loggers and listeners together.

#Log::Contextual

Log::Contextual is a simple interface to extensible logging. It is bundled with a really basic logger, Log::Contextual::SimpleLogger.

#Log::Dispatch

This module manages a set of Log::Dispatch::* output objects that can be logged to via a unified interface.

#Log::Log4perl

Log::Log4perl lets you remote-control and fine-tune the logging behaviour of your system from the outside. It implements the widely popular (Java-based) Log4j logging package in pure Perl.

#Task::Kensho::ModuleDev: Module Development

#CPAN::Uploader

Upload things to the CPAN

#Code::TidyAll

Engine for tidyall, your all-in-one code tidier and validator

#Data::Printer

Colored pretty-print of Perl data structures and objects

#Devel::Confess

Include stack traces on all warnings and errors

#Devel::Dwarn

Combine warns and Data::Dumper::Concise

#Devel::NYTProf

Powerful feature-rich perl source code profiler

#Dist::Zilla

Builds distributions of code to be uploaded to the CPAN.

#Modern::Perl

enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one command

#Module::Build::Tiny

A simple, lightweight, drop-in replacement for ExtUtils::MakeMaker or Module::Build

#Perl::Critic

Critique Perl source code for best-practices.

#Perl::Tidy

Parses and beautifies perl source

#Pod::Readme

Convert POD to README file

#Software::License

Packages that provide templated software licenses

#Task::Kensho::OOP: Object Oriented Programming

#Moo

Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)

#Moose

a postmodern object system for Perl5 (see also Task::Moose for a larger list of Moose extensions)

#MooseX::Aliases

easy aliasing of methods and attributes in Moose

#MooseX::Getopt

a Moose role for processing command line options

#MooseX::NonMoose

easy subclassing of non-Moose classes

#MooseX::Role::Parameterized

Moose roles with composition parameters

#MooseX::SimpleConfig

a Moose role for setting attributes from a simple configuration file

#MooseX::StrictConstructor

a Moose extension that makes your object constructors blow up on unknown attributes

#Package::Variant

Parameterizable packages

#Type::Tiny

tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraints

#namespace::autoclean

keep imports out of your namespace (Moose-aware)

#Task::Kensho::Scalability: Scalability

#CHI

A unified cache interface, like DBI

#Redis

Perl binding for Redis database

#Task::Kensho::Testing: Testing

#Devel::Cover

Code coverage metrics for Perl

#Test2::Suite

Distribution with a rich set of tools built upon the Test2 framework.

#Test::Deep

Test deep data structures

#Test::Fatal

Test exception-based code

#Test::Memory::Cycle

Check for memory leaks and circular memory references

#Test::Pod

Check for POD errors in files

#Test::Pod::Coverage

Check for pod coverage in your distribution.

#Test::Requires

Make running a test conditional on a particular module being installed

#Test::Simple

Basic utilities for writing tests.

#Test::Warnings

Test for warnings and the lack of them

#Task::Kensho::Toolchain: Basic Toolchain

#App::FatPacker

Pack your dependencies onto your script file

#App::cpanminus

Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN

#App::cpm

a fast CPAN module installer

#App::perlbrew

Manage perl installations in your $HOME

#CPAN::Mini

Create a minimal mirror of CPAN

#Carton

Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)

#Pinto

Curate a repository of Perl modules

#local::lib

Create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB

#version

Perl extension for Version Objects

#Task::Kensho::WebCrawling: Web Crawling

#HTTP::Thin

A Thin Wrapper around HTTP::Tiny to play nice with HTTP::Message

#HTTP::Tiny

Lightweight HTTP client implementation

#LWP::Simple

Simple procedural interface to LWP

#LWP::UserAgent

Full-featured Web client library for Perl

#Mojo::UserAgent

Non-blocking I/O HTTP and WebSocket user agent

#WWW::Mechanize

Handy web browsing in a Perl object

#WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder

This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder.

#WWW::Selenium

Perl Client for the Selenium Remote Control test tool

#Task::Kensho::WebDev: Web Development

#Attean

A Semantic Web Framework

#CGI::FormBuilder::Source::Perl

Build CGI::FormBuilder configs from Perl syntax files.

#Dancer2

the new generation of Dancer, a lightweight yet powerful web application framework

#HTML::FormHandler

HTML forms using Moose

#HTTP::BrowserDetect

Determine Web browser, version, and platform from an HTTP user agent string

#MIME::Types

Definition of MIME types

#Mojolicious

Real-time web framework

#Plack

Flexible superglue between Web Servers and Perl Web Frameworks or code.

#Task::Catalyst

Catalyst is The Elegant MVC Web Application Framework. Task::Catalyst is all you need to start with Catalyst.

#Template

(Template::Toolkit) Template Processing System

#Web::Simple

A quick and easy way to build simple web applications

#XML::Atom

Atom feed and API implementation

#XML::RSS

Creates and updates RSS files

#Task::Kensho::XML: XML Development

#XML::Generator::PerlData

Perl extension for generating SAX2 events from nested Perl data structures.

#XML::LibXML

Perl Binding for libxml2

#XML::LibXSLT

Interface to the gnome libxslt library

#XML::SAX

Simple/Streaming API for XML

#XML::SAX::Writer

Output XML from SAX2 Events

#INSTALLING

Since version 0.34, Task::Kensho has made use of the optional_features field in distribution metadata. This allows CPAN clients to interact with you regarding which modules you wish to install.

The cpanm client requires interactive mode to be enabled for this to work:

cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho

#LIMITATIONS

This list is by no means comprehensive of the "Good" Modules on CPAN. Nor is this necessarily the correct path for all developers. Each of these modules has a perfectly acceptable replacement that may work better for you. This is however a path to good perl practice, and a starting place on the road to Enlightened Perl programming.

#SEE ALSO

http://www.enlightenedperl.org/, Perl::Dist::Strawberry

#SUPPORT

Bugs may be submitted through https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues.

There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at #epo on irc.perl.org.

#AUTHOR

Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

#CONTRIBUTORS

• Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

• Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org>

• Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org>

• Dan Book <grinnz@grinnz.com>

• Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com>

• Mohammad S Anwar <mohammad.anwar@yahoo.com>

• Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>

• Rachel Kelly <rkellyalso@gmail.com>

• Shawn Sorichetti <shawn@coloredblocks.com>

• Andrew Whatson <whatson@gmail.com>

• Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

• Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>

• Tina Müller <cpan2@tinita.de>

#COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

This software is copyright (c) 2008 by Chris Prather.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

CPANdoc Browser is maintained by Dan Book (DBOOK). Please contact him via the GitHub issue tracker or email regarding any issues with the site itself, search, or rendering of documentation.

CPAN module documentation is maintained by each author and maintainer individually. Please contact them via the mechanisms listed in their documentation or on the module's MetaCPAN page to report any issues with the contents or format of the documentation.