Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl

version 0.40

> 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 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.

#IO::Async Asynchronous event-driven programming #POE Multitasking and networking framework for Perl

#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!

#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

#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)

A date object with as little code as possible A date and time object A date time object with as little code as possible #Time::Moment A fast immutable object representing a date and time 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::Stuffer A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails #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)

#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.

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. 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 #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

#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)

#CHI A unified cache interface, like DBI #Redis Perl binding for Redis database

#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::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

#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

#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 #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

#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 #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.

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

cpanm --interactive 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.

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

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 .

Chris Prather <chris@prather.org>

Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>

Chris Nehren <apeiron@cpan.org>

Leo Lapworth <leo@cuckoo.org>

Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com>

Olaf Alders <olaf@wundersolutions.com>

Shawn Sorichetti <shawn@coloredblocks.com>

Rachel Kelly <rkellyalso@gmail.com>

Andrew Whatson <whatson@gmail.com>

Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>

Florian Ragwitz <rafl@debian.org>

#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.