This is a list of wishes for Perl. The most up to date version of this file is at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/blead/Porting/todo.pod>. The tasks we think are smaller or easier are listed first. Anyone is welcome to work on any of these, but i...

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The design of this module is similar to the design of B, the perl compiler backend....

The libwww-perl collection is a set of Perl modules which provides a simple and consistent application programming interface (API) to the World-Wide Web. The main focus of the library is to provide classes and functions that allow you to write WWW cl...

"perlcritic" is a Perl source code analyzer. It is the executable front-end to the Perl::Critic engine, which attempts to identify awkward, hard to read, error-prone, or unconventional constructs in your code. Most of the rules are based on Damian Co...

DateTime is a class for the representation of date/time combinations, and is part of the Perl DateTime project. For details on this project please see <http://datetime.perl.org/>. The DateTime site has a FAQ which may help answer many "how do I do X?...

This module simplifies the task of writing test files for Perl modules, such that their output is in the format that Test::Harness expects to see....

CGI::Simple provides a relatively lightweight drop in replacement for CGI.pm. It shares an identical OO interface to CGI.pm for parameter parsing, file upload, cookie handling and header generation. This module is entirely object oriented, however a ...

Often there are several possible providers of some functionality your program needs, but you don't know which is available at the run site. For example, one of the modules may be implemented with XS, or not in the core Perl distribution and thus not ...

Various material about the internal Perl compilation representation during parsing and optimization, before the actual execution begins, represented as "B" objects, the "B" op tree. The well-known perlguts.pod focuses more on the internal representat...

ALERT: Marc Lehmann may have taken over the future of event loops in Perl. Check out his libev library and EV Perl module. 25 Aug 2009 The Event module provide a central facility to watch for various types of events and invoke a callback when these e...

"ObjectStore" is the market leader in object-oriented databases http://www.odi.com (NASDAQ: ODIS). They use a unique *Cache-Forward Architecture* to make persistent data available in literally the most efficient manner possible. Prior to this joining...

Test::Class provides a simple way of creating classes and objects to test your code in an xUnit style. Built using Test::Builder, it was designed to work with other Test::Builder based modules (Test::More, Test::Differences, Test::Exception, etc.). *...

Given source and target data, the "Vcdiff::diff" function computes a "delta" that encodes the difference information needed to turn source into target. Anyone who has source and delta can derive target with the "Vcdiff::patch" function. The point of ...

"WWW::Mechanize", or Mech for short, is a Perl module for stateful programmatic web browsing, used for automating interaction with websites. Features include: * All HTTP methods * High-level hyperlink and HTML form support, without having to parse HT...

STOP! If you're just getting started writing tests, have a look at Test.Simple first. This is a drop in replacement for Test.Simple that you can switch to once you get the hang of basic testing. The purpose of this module is to provide a wide range o...

`Memoizing' a function makes it faster by trading space for time. It does this by caching the return values of the function in a table. If you call the function again with the same arguments, "memoize" jumps in and gives you the value out of the tabl...

• Memoize::Expire - Plug-in module for automatic expiration of memoized values

This program processes a Pod document and attempts to *tidy* it's formatting. Currently this is limited to redoing the line breaks in text Pod paragraphs but it is hoped that more features will be added in the future....

• Pod::Tidy - a reformatting Pod Processor
• Pod::Wrap::Pretty - reformat Pod to be nicely line wrapped

The SNMP::Multi package provides a mechanism to perform SNMP operations on several hosts simultaneously. SNMP::Multi builds on G. Marzot's SNMP Perl interface to the UC-Davis SNMP libraries, using asynchronous SNMP operations to send queries/sets to ...

When subclassing a class, you occasionally want to dispatch control to the superclass -- at least conditionally and temporarily. The Perl syntax for calling your superclass is ugly and unwieldy: $self->SUPER::method(@_); especially when compared to i...