--- name: "Task::Kensho" section: "3pm" platform: "linux" package: "libtask-kensho-perl" version: "0.41-2" release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)" platforms: ["linux"] url: "https://new.carta.tech/Task::Kensho" --- # Task::Kensho(3pm) A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl ## NAME Task::Kensho - A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl ## VERSION version 0.41 ## SYNOPSIS ``` # apt-get install libtask-kensho-all-perl ``` ## 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 \: 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 in Debian GNU/Linux, you can install each sub-task metapackage separately (e.g. libtask-kensho-async-perl), or you can install all tasks at once by installing the libtask-kensho-all-perl metapackage. These metapackages facilitate the ease and simplicity the distribution aims to achieve whilst utilising the power of the Debian GNU/Linux package system. ## 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 To install all Task::Kensho tasks and their recommended modules on Debian GNU/Linux, install the libtask-kensho-all-perl metapackage: ``` # apt-get install libtask-kensho-all-perl ``` Each Kensho task is itself a metapackage. To install a specific task, install the relevant metapackage. E.g. for Task::Kensho::Async: ``` # apt-get install libtask-kensho-async-perl ``` ## 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 \, Perl::Dist::Strawberry ## SUPPORT Bugs may be submitted through \. There is also an irc channel available for users of this distribution, at `"#epo"` on `"irc.perl.org"` \. ## AUTHOR Chris Prather \ ## CONTRIBUTORS - • Karen Etheridge \ - • Chris Nehren \ - • Leo Lapworth \ - • Dan Book \ - • Dan Book \ - • Mohammad S Anwar \ - • Olaf Alders \ - • Rachel Kelly \ - • Shawn Sorichetti \ - • Andrew Whatson \ - • Florian Ragwitz \ - • Rick Leir \ - • Tina Müller \ ## 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.