Task::Kensho3pm

A glimpse at an enlightened perl

Usage

    # apt-get install libtask-kensho-all-perl

Version

version 0.41

Overview

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 <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]

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.

Support

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" <irc://irc.perl.org/#epo>.

Contributors

`•`	Karen Etheridge <[email protected]>
`•`	Chris Nehren <[email protected]>
`•`	Leo Lapworth <[email protected]>
`•`	Dan Book <[email protected]>
`•`	Dan Book <[email protected]>
`•`	Mohammad S Anwar <[email protected]>
`•`	Olaf Alders <[email protected]>
`•`	Rachel Kelly <[email protected]>
`•`	Shawn Sorichetti <[email protected]>
`•`	Andrew Whatson <[email protected]>
`•`	Florian Ragwitz <[email protected]>
`•`	Rick Leir <[email protected]>
`•`	Tina Müller <[email protected]>

Copyright and licence

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.