Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl
version 0.34003
> cpanm --interactive Task::Kensho
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]
Task::Kensho is a first cut at building a list of recommended 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.
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.
POE
Multitasking and networking framework for Perl
App::Ack
A grep-like text finder
App::Nopaste
Easy access to any pastebin
App::perlbrew
Manage perl installations in your $HOME
Devel::REPL
A modern perl interactive shell
Module::CoreList
What modules shipped with versions of perl
Config::Any
Load configuration from different file formats, transparently
Config::General
Generic Config Module
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)
Date::Tiny
A date object with as little code as possible
DateTime
A date and time object
DateTime::Tiny
Time::ParseDate
Date parsing both relative and absolute
Time::Tiny
A time object with as little code as possible
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::Valid
Check validity of Internet email addresses
Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Simple
A simple interface to Excel data
Spreadsheet::WriteExcel::Simple
Create Excel documents easily
Text::CSV_XS
Manipulate comma-separated values (CSV)
Try::Tiny
Lightweight exception handling that handles the vagaries of $@.
TryCatch
Flexible exception handling without source filters, handles $@ properly.
autodie
Make builtins and other functions die instead of returning undef on failure.
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
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.
CPAN::Uploader
Upload things to the CPAN
Carp::Always
Warns and dies noisily with stack backtraces
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::Install
Standalone, extensible Perl module installer
Perl::Critic
Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
Perl::Tidy
Parses and beautifies perl source
Perl::Version
Parse and manipulate Perl version strings
Pod::Readme
Convert POD to README file
Software::License
Packages that provide templated software licenses
Task::Moose
Moose is a postmodern object system for Perl5. Task::Moose installs Moose and optionally a list of recommended modules that extend Moose.
CHI
A unified cache interface, like DBI
Devel::Cover
Code coverage metrics for Perl
Test::Deep
Test deep data structures
Test::Fatal
Test exception-based code
Test::Memory::Cycle
Check for memory leaks and circular memory references
Test::Most
Most commonly needed test functions and features.
Test::NoWarnings
Ensure that no (unexpected) warnings occur during testing
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.
App::cpanminus
Get, unpack, build and install modules from CPAN
local::lib
Create and use a local lib/ for perl modules with PERL5LIB
version
Perl extension for Version Objects
HTTP::Lite
Lightweight HTTP client implementation
LWP::Simple
Simple procedural interface to LWP
LWP::UserAgent
Full-featured Web client library for Perl
WWW::Mechanize
Handy web browsing in a Perl object
WWW::Mechanize::TreeBuilder
This module combines WWW::Mechanize and HTML::TreeBuilder.
CGI::FormBuilder::Source::Perl
Build CGI::FormBuilder configs from Perl syntax files.
MIME::Types
Definition of MIME types
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::Toolkit
Template Processing System
XML::Atom
Atom feed and API implementation
XML::RSS
Creates and updates RSS files
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
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.
optional_features
The cpanm client requires interactive mode to be enabled for this to work:
cpanm
cpanm --interactive Task-Kensho
Starting with release 0.18, Task::Kensho was moved to a monthly release cycle. This will facilitate a consistent schedule for upstream vendors to track the changes in Task::Kensho.
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.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to https://github.com/EnlightenedPerlOrganisation/task-kensho/issues.
http://www.enlightenedperl.org/, Perl::Dist::Strawberry
Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>
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.
To install Task::Kensho, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Task::Kensho
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Task::Kensho
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.