Perl modules
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ExtUtils-MakeMaker Create a module Makefile - perl The Perl 5 language interpreter
- Test-Pod check for POD errors in files
- Test-Pod-Coverage Check for pod coverage in your distribution
- Module-Build Build and install Perl modules
- Carp alternative warn and die for modules
- Pod-Coverage-TrustPod allow a module's pod to contain Pod::Coverage hints
- Moose A postmodern object system for Perl 5
- File-Temp return name and handle of a temporary file safely
- Test-Perl-Critic Use Perl::Critic in test programs.
- Exporter Implements default import method for modules
- Test-Exception Test exception-based code
- Test-CPAN-Meta Validate your CPAN META.json files
- Moo Minimalist Object Orientation (with Moose compatibility)
- version Structured version objects
- parent Establish an ISA relationship with base classes at compile time
- JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) encoder/decoder
- Data-Dumper stringified perl data structures, suitable for both printing and eval
- Module-Build-Tiny A tiny replacement for Module::Build
- Test-NoTabs Check the presence of tabs in your project
- Test-EOL Check the correct line endings in your project
- Encode character encodings in Perl
- namespace-autoclean Keep imports out of your namespace
- URI Uniform Resource Identifiers (absolute and relative)
- Try-Tiny Minimal try/catch with proper preservation of $@
- Getopt-Long Module to handle parsing command line options
- DateTime A date and time object for Perl
- FindBin Locate directory of original Perl script
- base compile-time class fields
- lib manipulate @INC at compile time
- Test-MinimumVersion does your code require newer perl than you think?
- Test-Spelling Check for spelling errors in POD files
- Dist-Zilla distribution builder; installer not included!
- Test-PAUSE-Permissions tests module permissions in your distribution
- Time-HiRes High resolution alarm, sleep, gettimeofday, interval timers
- DBI Database independent interface for Perl
- Test-Kwalitee Test the Kwalitee of a distribution before you release it
- Test-MinimumVersion-Fast does your code require newer perl than you think?
- File-Path Create or remove directory trees
- List-MoreUtils Provide the stuff missing in List::Util
- Test-Rinci Test Rinci metadata
- Test-Deep Extremely flexible deep comparison
- Path-Tiny File path utility
- namespace-clean Keep imports and functions out of your namespace
- YAML YAML Ain't Markup Language™
- Test-Most Most commonly needed test functions and features.
- File-Slurp Simple and Efficient Reading/Writing/Modifying of Complete Files
- constant Perl pragma to declare constants
- Test-Fatal incredibly simple helpers for testing code with exceptions
- Capture-Tiny Capture STDOUT and STDERR from Perl, XS or external programs
- MIME-Base64 Encoding and decoding of base64 strings
- Test-Version Check to see that version's in modules are sane
- Mojolicious Real-time web framework
- Test-Simple Basic utilities for writing tests.
- Storable persistence for Perl data structures
- Pod-Usage extracts POD documentation and shows usage information
- Test-NoWarnings Make sure you didn't emit any warnings while testing
- Test-Portability-Files Check file names portability
- Path-Class Cross-platform path specification manipulation
- Digest-MD5 Perl interface to the MD-5 algorithm
- File-ShareDir Locate per-dist and per-module shared files
- Test-Mojibake check your source for encoding misbehavior.
- CPAN-Meta the distribution metadata for a CPAN dist
- JSON-XS JSON serialising/deserialising, done correctly and fast
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-PodWeaver weave your Pod together from configuration and Dist::Zilla
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-MetaProvides-Package Extract namespaces/version from traditional packages for provides
- Type-Tiny tiny, yet Moo(se)-compatible type constraint
- DBD-SQLite Self Contained SQLite RDBMS in a DBI Driver
- Readonly Facility for creating read-only scalars, arrays, hashes
- Test-Requires Checks to see if the module can be loaded
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-ReadmeAnyFromPod Automatically convert POD to a README in any format for Dist::Zilla
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-ReportPrereqs Report on prerequisite versions during automated testing
- Log-ger A lightweight, flexible logging framework
- Dist-Milla Distribution builder, Opinionated but Unobtrusive
- autodie Replace functions with ones that succeed or die with lexical scope
- Test-Synopsis Test your SYNOPSIS code
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-GithubMeta Automatically include GitHub meta information in META.yml
- JSON-MaybeXS Use Cpanel::JSON::XS with a fallback to JSON::XS and JSON::PP
- XML-LibXML Interface to Gnome libxml2 xml parsing and DOM library
- File-ShareDir-Install Install shared files
- XML-Simple An API for simple XML files
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Authority Add the $AUTHORITY variable and metadata to your distribution
- XSLoader Dynamically load C libraries into Perl code
- HTTP-Tiny A small, simple, correct HTTP/1.1 client
- File-Which Perl implementation of the which utility as an API
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Contributors Add contributor names from git to your distribution
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Compile Common tests to check syntax of your modules, using only core modules
- Digest-SHA Perl extension for SHA-1/224/256/384/512
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-CPAN-Changes release tests for your changelog
- Module-Runtime runtime module handling
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-MinimumPerl Detects the minimum version of Perl required for your dist
- Test-Warn Perl extension to test methods for warnings
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Prereqs-AuthorDeps Add Dist::Zilla authordeps to META files as develop prereqs
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-EOL Author tests making sure correct line endings are used
- AnyEvent simpler/faster/newer/cooler AnyEvent API
- Log-Log4perl Log4j implementation for Perl
- Test-Warnings Test for warnings and the lack of them
- Test-Differences Test strings and data structures and show differences if not ok
- Sub-Exporter a sophisticated exporter for custom-built routines
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-MinimumVersion Author tests for minimum required versions
- Perinci-CmdLine-Any Choose Perinci::CmdLine implementation (::Lite or ::Classic)
- Class-Accessor Automated accessor generation
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Kwalitee Author tests for kwalitee
- Params-Validate Validate method/function parameters
- Log-Any Bringing loggers and listeners together
- Plack Perl Superglue for Web frameworks and Web Servers (PSGI toolkit)
- Test-CleanNamespaces Check for uncleaned imports
- IO-Socket-SSL Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.
- ExtUtils-CBuilder Compile and link C code for Perl modules
- Data-Dump Pretty printing of data structures
- LWP-Protocol-https Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
- File-HomeDir Find your home and other directories on any platform
- POE Portable, event-loop agnostic eventy networking and multitasking.
- Perl-Critic Critique Perl source code for best-practices.
- Clone recursively copy Perl datatypes
- Module-Metadata Gather package and POD information from perl module files
- Socket networking constants and support functions
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-NoTabs Author tests that ensure hard tabs are not used
- Class-Load A working (require "Class::Name") and more
- Module-Load Load modules in a DWIM style
- File-Find-Rule command line wrapper to File::Find::Rule
- Test-Pod-LinkCheck Tests POD for invalid links
- Test-Vars Detects unused variables in perl modules
- MooX-ClassAttribute declare class attributes Moose-style... but without Moose
- WWW-Mechanize Handy web browsing in a Perl object
- Test-CPAN-Meta-JSON Validate your CPAN META.json files
- Mouse Moose minus the antlers
- DBIx-Class Extensible and flexible object <-> relational mapper.
- Perl-osnames List possible $^O ($OSNAME) values, with description
- Term-ANSIColor Color output using ANSI escape sequences
- UNIVERSAL-require require() modules from a variable [deprecated]
- Test-MockObject Perl extension for emulating troublesome interfaces
- Test-CheckDeps Check for presence of dependencies
- MooseX-Types Organise your Moose types in libraries
- CGI Handle Common Gateway Interface requests and responses
- JSON-PP JSON::XS compatible pure-Perl module.
- Perinci-CmdLine-Lite A Rinci/Riap-based command-line application framework
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CopyFilesFromRelease Copy files from a release (for SCM inclusion, etc.)
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Perl-Critic Tests to check your code against best practices
- Locale-CLDR A Module to create locale objects with localisation data from the CLDR
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-PromptIfStale Check at build/release time if modules are out of date
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-PodSpelling Author tests for POD spelling
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CheckPrereqsIndexed prevent a release if you have prereqs not found on CPAN
- Test-Pod-No404s Using this test module will check your POD for any http 404 links
- Test provides a simple framework for writing test scripts
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Portability Author tests for portability
- File-Slurper A simple, sane and efficient module to slurp a file
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CopyFilesFromBuild Copy (or move) specific files after building (for SCM inclusion, etc.)
- strictures Turn on strict and make most warnings fatal
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-RewriteVersion-Transitional Ease the transition to [RewriteVersion] in your distribution
- Digest-SHA1 Perl interface to the SHA-1 algorithm
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-InstallGuide Build an INSTALL file
- Test-Pod-Spelling-CommonMistakes Checks POD for common spelling mistakes
- Test-Fixme Check code for FIXMEs.
- Catalyst-Runtime The Catalyst Framework Runtime
- MooseX-ClassAttribute Declare class attributes Moose-style
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-MojibakeTests Author tests for source encoding
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-AutoMetaResources Automagical MetaResources
- Test-TrailingSpace test for trailing space in source files.
- Time-Local Efficiently compute time from local and GMT time
- Module-Pluggable automatically give your module the ability to have plugins
- Test-Strict Check syntax, presence of use strict; and test coverage
- Bencher-Backend Backend for Bencher
- Test-Output Utilities to test STDOUT and STDERR messages.
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-CleanNamespaces Generate a test to check that all namespaces are clean
- Time-Piece Object Oriented time objects
- if use a Perl module if a condition holds
- Role-Tiny Roles: a nouvelle cuisine portion size slice of Moose
- experimental Experimental features made easy
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Remote-Check Ensure no pending commits on a remote branch before release
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CheckSelfDependency Check if your distribution declares a dependency on itself
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Git-Describe add the results of `git describe` (roughly) to your main module
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Keywords Add keywords to metadata in your distribution
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CheckIssues Retrieve count of outstanding RT and github issues for your distribution
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CheckStrictVersion BeforeRelease plugin to check for a strict version number
- Archive-Tar Manipulates TAR archives
- Perl-Tidy indent and reformat perl scripts
- File-chdir a more sensible way to change directories
- common-sense save a tree AND a kitten, use common::sense!
- Regexp-Common Provide commonly requested regular expressions
- YAML-Syck Fast, lightweight YAML loader and dumper
- Any-Moose (DEPRECATED) use Moo instead!
- Dist-Zilla-PluginBundle-Author-ETHER A plugin bundle for distributions built by ETHER
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-StaticInstall Identify a distribution as eligible for static installation
- Modern-Perl enable all of the features of Modern Perl with one import
- Math-BigInt Pure Perl module to test Math::BigInt with scalars
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-Test-Pod-No404s Add author tests for POD HTTP links
- Test-Class Easily create test classes in an xUnit/JUnit style
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-CheckMetaResources Ensure META includes resources
- Dist-Zilla-Plugin-BumpVersionAfterRelease Bump module versions after distribution release
- MRO-Compat mro::* interface compatibility for Perls < 5.9.5
- Params-Util Simple, compact and correct param-checking functions
- Dancer lightweight yet powerful web application framework
- Data-Printer colored & full-featured pretty print of Perl data structures and objects
- IO-String Emulate file interface for in-core strings
- Net-SSLeay Perl bindings for OpenSSL and LibreSSL
- Test-TCP testing TCP program
- Test-Compile Assert that your Perl files compile OK.
- Test-Harness contributing to TAP::Harness
- Alien-Build Build external dependencies for use in CPAN