CPAN clients

• CPAN.pm
  • cpan -g module: to download tarball
  • CPAN-Plugin-Sysdeps - CPAN.pm plugin for installing external dependencies - metacpan.org
  • Experimental plugin support
• cpanm
  • PERL_CPANM_OPT='--from https://www.cpan.org --verify'
  • cpanm --mirror http://www.cpan.org/ --mirror http://backpan.perl.org/ --mirror http://cpan.cpantesters.org/ --mirror https://cpan.metacpan.org/ Local
    • download all ~/.cpanm/sources/*/02packages.details.txt.gz
• cpm
• cnext
  • cnext - an alternate CPAN client using next-cpan GitHub repositories
  • The Next Generation of CPAN
  • The Next Generation of CPAN · GitHub
  • GitHub - next-cpan/OverPAN: OverPAN the extra layer to patch CPAN

Metadata

• https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-api/blob/master/docs/API-docs.md
• https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-examples
• http://mapofcpan.org/
  • https://github.com/grantm/cpan-map
• https://gephi.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/cpan-explorer-an-interactive-exploration-of-the-perl-ecosystem/
  • https://github.com/gephi/gephi/wiki/Datasets
  • https://studentwork.prattsi.org/infovis/labs/network-analysis-on-the-developers-and-the-modules-of-the-perl-language/

Naming Perl modules

• Local is reserved: https://pause.perl.org/pause/query?ACTION=pause_namingmodules

Building Perl modules

Minimum Perl versions:

• Perl::MinimumVersion - Find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code - metacpan.org
• Perl::MinimumVersion::Fast - Find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code - metacpan.org
• Syntax::Construct - Explicitly state which non-feature constructs are used in the code. - metacpan.org
• Add minimum specified Perl version to build matrix (GitHub Actions workflow improvements by zmughal · Pull Request #7 · perlrdf/p5-rdf-ns-curated · GitHub)

Module specificity:

• Pure-Perl modules:
  • Are not: Perl version-specific, but may have have a minimum Perl version.
  • Are not: Architecture-specific.
  • Can be "fatpacked".
    • Fatpacking:
      • App-FatPacker-Simple - only fatpack a script - metacpan.org
      • App::FatPacker - pack your dependencies onto your script file - metacpan.org
      • App::depak - Pack dependencies onto your script file - metacpan.org
    • Or "mobundled"
      • Parachuting Whatever – PolettiX!
      • mobundle - ETOOBUSY
      • mobundle gets some love - ETOOBUSY
      • Public Git Hosting - mobundle.git/summary
  • Some use an environment variable to set implementation:
    • Params::Util: $ENV{PERL_PARAMS_UTIL_PP}=1
    • Params::Validate: $ENV{PARAMS_VALIDATE_IMPLEMENTATION}='PP'
    • others: Acme::CPANModules::XSVersions - List of XS versions of Perl modules - metacpan.org
• Alien modules
  • Are not: Perl version-specific.
  • Are: Architecture-specific.
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Probe::OverrideCI - Override logic for continuous integration - metacpan.org
  • Alien::Build::Plugin::Fetch::Cache - Alien::Build plugin to cache files downloaded from the internet - metacpan.org
• XS modules
  • Are: Perl version-specific.
  • Are: Architecture-specific.
  • Test without XS: Test::NoXS - Prevent a module from loading its XS code - metacpan.org
  • Can be packaged using PAR or staticperl (see below)

Some modules have Pure-Perl fallbacks:

• Module::XSOrPP - Determine if an installed module is XS or pure-perl - metacpan.org

Packaging

• PAR
  • PAR::Dist - Create and manipulate PAR distributions - metacpan.org
  • PAR issue with DLLs Track PAR XSLoader issue on MSYS2/MinGW64 · Issue #122 · project-renard/curie · GitHub, Getting Gtk3 to work with PAR
    • may need to use DLL dependency tool for Windows to automate this.

• staticperl

  • staticperl - perl, libc, 100 modules, all in one standalone 500kb file - metacpan.org
  • GitHub - gh0stwizard/staticperl-modules: Patched modules from CPAN for staticperl
    • Category: staticperl @ Technotes

• Debian

  • Building Debian packages of Perl modules
  • CPANPLUS::Dist::Deb - metacpan.org
  • PerlFAQ - Debian Wiki
  • GitHub - jozef/Debian-Apt-PM: locate Perl Modules in Debian repositories
    • Alien::Debian::Apt::PM - install bundled apt-pm apt-cpan apt-pm-web dh-make-pm cpan-patches dpkg-scanpmpackages - metacpan.org
    • 2010Q3 Grant Proposal: CPAN to deb autopackaging
    • SettingUpBuildSystem - How to set-up a chrooted build system - metacpan.org
  • How to find (Debian/Ubuntu/...) packages that provide required Perl modules - Stack Overflow
    • Match package names across distributions
    • deb - How to find out what package contains some Perl module - Ask Ubuntu
• RPM
  • cpanspec - RPM spec file generation utility
  • Perl/cpanspec - Fedora Project Wiki
  • GitHub - openSUSE/cpanspec: Create openSUSE spec files form cpan tar files
  • yum whatprovides 'perl(Foo::Bar)' equivalent with apt or dpkg? - Ask Ubuntu
    • yum whatprovides 'perl(Foo::Bar)'
• relatedly for pkg-config
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18475961/how-to-map-pkg-config-names-to-yum-apt-get
  • apt-file search /usr/lib/$(dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/pkgconfig/zlib.pc
    • https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples
  • yum whatprovides 'pkgconfig(zlib)'

Version updating

• A Guide to Versions in Perl - Grinnz (blogs.perl.org)
• Sort::Versions - a perl 5 module for sorting of revision-like numbers - metacpan.org
• How can I automatically update Perl modules' $VERSION with Git? - Stack Overflow
• perl-bump-version - A tool to bump your Perl module versions - metacpan.org
• PPI-PowerToys - A handy collection of small PPI-based utilities - metacpan.org

Existing tools

Building / distributing Perl

• GitHub - tokuhirom/Perl-Build
• GitHub - tokuhirom/plenv: Perl binary manager
• Perlbrew
  • How To Reinstall All Modules On New Perl
• Devel::PatchPerl - Patch perl source a la Devel::PPPort's buildperl.pl - metacpan.org
• GitHub - skaji/Devel-PatchPerl-Plugin-FixCompoundTokenSplitByMacro
• CPAN::Perl::Releases - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs - metacpan.org
• CPAN::Perl::Releases::MetaCPAN - Mapping Perl releases on CPAN to the location of the tarballs via MetaCPAN API - metacpan.org

Package dependencies

• CPAN::Unwind - Recursively determines dependencies of CPAN modules - metacpan.org
  • Parse-CPAN-Packages - Parse 02packages.details.txt.gz - metacpan.org
  • Module::Depends::Intrusive - intrusive discovery of distribution dependencies. - metacpan.org
• Devel-TraceUse - show the modules your program loads, recursively - metacpan.org
• Module-ExtractUse - Find out what modules are used - metacpan.org
• Perl-PrereqScanner-NotQuiteLite - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites - metacpan.org
• Perl-PrereqScanner - a tool to scan your Perl code for its prerequisites - metacpan.org
• App-scan_prereqs_cpanfile - Scan prerequisite modules and generate CPANfile - metacpan.org
• Dependencies-Searcher - Search for modules used or required by a distribution and build a report that can be used as Carton cpanfile . - metacpan.org
• Module-ScanDeps - Recursively scan Perl code for dependencies - metacpan.org
• Module-ScanDeps-Static - scan modules for dependencies - metacpan.org
• Tangerine - Examine perl files and report dependency metadata - metacpan.org
• CPAN-FindDependencies - generate reports when modules' dependencies get new releases - metacpan.org
• CPAN modules for getting module dependency information

• Dist::Surveyor - Survey installed modules and determine the specific distribution versions they came from - metacpan.org

• OrePAN2 - Yet another DarkPAN manager. - metacpan.org

• App::opan - A CPAN overlay for darkpan and pinning purposes - metacpan.org
• App-plx - Perl Layout Executor - metacpan.org
• GitHub - skaji/Carl
• CPAN-Mirror-Tiny - create partial CPAN mirror (a.k.a. DarkPAN) - metacpan.org
• Pinto - Curate a repository of Perl modules - metacpan.org
• CPAN::Mini - create a minimal mirror of CPAN - metacpan.org
• CPAN::Mini::Inject - Inject modules into a CPAN::Mini mirror. - metacpan.org
• V - Print version of the specified module(s). - metacpan.org
• Carton - Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl) - metacpan.org
• Carmel - CPAN Artifact Repository Manager - metacpan.org
• Devel::Wherefore - Where the heck did these subroutines come from? - metacpan.org
• Acme::CPANModules::HidingModules - Hiding modules - metacpan.org

Distribution

Perl interpreter

• GitHub - skaji/relocatable-perl: self-contained, portable perl binaries
  • GitHub - ddmitov/perl-executing-browser: HTML interface for Perl 5 desktop applications
• GitHub - stevieb9/berrybrew: Perlbrew for Windows!
  • GitHub - stevieb9/test-brewbuild: Automate builds across all installed perl/berrybrew instances (Windows or Unix)
  • Chocolatey Software - berrybrew (Install) 1.2.6

Guides

• Dist::Zilla::Starter - Guide to getting started with Dist::Zilla - metacpan.org
• Releasing Perl Modules to CPAN - Gene Boggs
• CPAN Tutorials
• Release::Checklist - A QA checklist for CPAN releases - metacpan.org

Tools

• Dist::Milla - Distribution builder, Opinionated but Unobtrusive - metacpan.org
• Dist::Iller - A Dist::Zilla & Pod::Weaver preprocessor - metacpan.org
• Minilla - CPAN module authoring tool - metacpan.org
• Distar - A CPAN Distribution Author Tool - DEV Community
• Zilla::Dist - metacpan.org

Paths

• Module-Which - find version and path of locally installed modules - metacpan.org

Benchmarking, Profiling

• Dumbbench - More reliable benchmarking with the least amount of thinking - metacpan.org
• Benchmark - benchmark running times of Perl code - metacpan.org
• Devel::NYTProf - Powerful fast feature-rich Perl source code profiler - metacpan.org

Parsers, transpilers

• PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl) - metacpan.org
  • PPI-XS - (Minor) XS acceleration for PPI - metacpan.org
• PPR - Pattern-based Perl Recognizer - metacpan.org
• Babble - EXPERIMENTAL Babel-like for perl - metacpan.org
• Guacamole - A parser toolkit for Standard Perl - metacpan.org
• SPVM - SPVM Language - metacpan.org
  • GitHub - yuki-kimoto/SPVM: SPVM Language
  • SPVM Language Specification - SPVM Document - Static Perl Virtual Machine. Fast Calculation, Fast Array Operation, and Easy C/C++ Binding.
• RPerl - metacpan.org
• GitHub - fglock/Perlito: "Perlito" Perl programming language compiler
• Perl 11 · GitHub
  • This Perl Goes To 11
• Lingy - metacpan.org
• Compiler-Parser - Create Abstract Syntax Tree for Perl5 - metacpan.org
  • これからのPerlプロダクトのかたち(YAPC::Asia 2013)
  • GitHub - goccy/gperl: fastest perl like language
    • Masaaki Goshima - Perlと出会い、Perlを作る - YouTube
    • Perlと出会い、Perlを作る
  • GitHub - goccy/p5-Compiler-Tools-Transpiler: Transpile Perl5 code to JavaScript code
  • GitHub - goccy/p5-Compiler-CodeGenerator-LLVM: Create LLVM IR for Perl5
  • GitHub - goccy/perl-motion: Perl for iOS and OS X
    • PerlMotion
    • Perl motion
• GitHub - mbarbon/language-p: An experimental Perl 5 parser/compiler written in Perl 5
• SunStar Systems - Perl 7 Feature Request: sealed subs for typed lexicals
  • This Week on p5p 2000/06/25
  • Notes on Doug's Method Lookup Patch
  • Speeding up method lookups - nntp.perl.org
  • resolving methods at compile time - nntp.perl.org
• Stripping files
  • Perl::Strip - reduce file size by stripping whitespace, comments, pod etc. - metacpan.org
  • Perl::Squish - Reduce Perl code to a few characters as possible - metacpan.org
  • Perl::Stripper - Yet another PPI-based Perl source code stripper - metacpan.org
• Misc
  • Perl - The Detroit of Scripting Languages - Speaker Deck
• Regex
  • Regexp::Parsertron - Parse a Perl regexp into a data structure of type Tree - metacpan.org
  • Regexp::Parser - base class for parsing regexes - metacpan.org
  • PPIx::Regexp - Represent a regular expression of some sort - metacpan.org
• GitHub - Perl-Oshun/oshun: Declarative data validation for variables and subroutines

Projects

• GitHub - saiftynet/GUIDeFATE: GUI Design From A Text Editor

Refactoring

• Devel::Deprecate - Create deprecation schedules in your code - metacpan.org
• Gradual method renaming in Perl—The Phoenix Trap
• App-PRT - Command line Perl Refactoring Tool - metacpan.org
• App::perlimports - Make implicit imports explicit - metacpan.org
• App::perlvars - CLI tool to detect unused variables in Perl modules - metacpan.org
• Perl::Critic - Critique Perl source code for best-practices. - metacpan.org
• PPIx::Refactor - Hooks for refactoring perl via PPI - metacpan.org
• Devel::Refactor - Perl extension for refactoring Perl code. - metacpan.org

Testing

• https://perldoc.perl.org/TAP::Harness
  • https://perldoc.perl.org/Test::Harness
• Test::NeedsDisplay - Ensure that tests needing a display have one - metacpan.org
• Perl CPAN test metadata
• toolchain-site/lancaster-consensus.md at master · Perl-Toolchain-Gang/toolchain-site · GitHub
  • The Annotated Lancaster Consensus
  • CPAN.io
• git clone https://github.com/travis-perl/helpers && git -C helpers grep export
• GitHub - wolfsage/p5-distribution-smoke: Distribution::Smoke - smoke various versions of a distribution against modules down the river from it
• Ant JUnit XML output
  • https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Harness::JUnit
  • https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Formatter::JUnit
    • https://metacpan.org/pod/TAP::Formatter::JUnitREGRU
  • https://metacpan.org/pod/Test2::Harness::Renderer::JUnit

CI helpers

• GitHub - uperl/cip from plicease
• GitHub - tobyink/p5-app-ghaprove: Perl 5 distribution App-GhaProve; see homepage for downloads and documentation. from tobyink
• GitHub - houseabsolute/ci-perl-helpers: Makes comprehensive testing of Perl projects in Azure Pipelines trivial, App-CISetup - Command line tools to generate and update Travis and AppVeyor configs for Perl libraries - metacpan.org from DROLSKY
• GitHub-Actions - Work in GitHub Actions using Perl - metacpan.org from JMERELO
• GitHub - travis-perl/helpers: Travis-CI testing helper for Perl modules (unofficial)
• Install the State Tool: ActiveState Platform's CLI tool
• GitHub - FGasper/perl-github-action-tips: Tips for testing Perl modules via GitHub Actions

Debugger

• Perl Debugging Tools - perl.org
• DB::Skip - make the perl debugger skip statements in given packages or subs - metacpan.org
• Perl/Tk Debugger - ptkdb - Overview
• Regexp::Debugger - Visually debug regexes in-place - metacpan.org
• Rx - Regex debugger module - metacpan.org
  • Rx: A Regex Debugger for Perl
• Devel-ebug - A simple, extensible Perl debugger - metacpan.org
• Devel::MAT - Perl Memory Analysis Tool - metacpan.org
  • Devel::MAT::Tool::Future - analyse Future logic - metacpan.org
• App::Stacktrace - Stack trace - metacpan.org
• Enbugger - metacpan.org

POD

• https://perldoc.perl.org/Pod::Simple::Search
• Pod::Simple - metacpan.org
• Split pod documentation from a Perl module
  • Split a .pm into a .pod and a .pm - The Incredible Journey (blogs.perl.org)
• Pod::Strip - Remove POD from Perl code - metacpan.org
• i18n
  • International Perl Resources
  • perl - POD multilanguage documentation - Stack Overflow
  • gitpan/Pod-Parser-I18N: Read-only release history for Pod-Parser-I18N
  • PerlDoc.jp
    • canada/PerlDocJp: This Web application let perldoc.jp Japanized pod document browsable and searchable just like search.cpan.org
    • perldoc.jp
    • Pod::PerldocJp - perldoc that also checks perldoc.jp - metacpan.org
  • perldoc 2.0 - International Perl Documentation
  • Pod::MultiLang - metacpan.org

CPAN data

• GitHub - metacpan/metacpan-cpan-extracted: Extracted CPAN (all latest files extracted)

Editor / IDE tools

• Discussion

  • Perl Needs Better Tools
  • Perl Editor, Perl IDE
  • Perl Development Tools

• Generic

  • App-EditorTools - Command line tool for Perl code refactoring - metacpan.org
  • Devel-PerlySense - Perl IDE backend with Emacs frontend - metacpan.org
  • Devel::IntelliPerl - Auto-completion for Perl - metacpan.org
  • Code-ART - Analyze/Rename/Track Perl source code - metacpan.org
    • Damian Conway - Keynote: A Simple Matter Of Programming - YouTube
  • Perl::Tags - Generate (possibly exuberant) Ctags style tags for Perl sourcecode - metacpan.org
• LSP
  • GitHub - bscan/PerlNavigator: Perl Language Server that includes syntax checking, perl critic, and code navigation
  • PLS - Perl Language Server - metacpan.org
  • Perl::LanguageServer - Language Server and Debug Protocol Adapter for Perl - metacpan.org
• Vim
  • GitHub - vim-perl/vim-perl: Support for Perl 5 in Vim
  • GitHub - skaji/syntax-check-perl
  • Vim::X - Candy for Perl programming in Vim - metacpan.org
  • Vim::Helper - Extended tools to assist working with perl in vim. - metacpan.org
  • Pod::Simple::Vim - Render pod for display in vim - metacpan.org
  • Devel::Cover::Report::Vim - Backend for displaying coverage data in Vim - metacpan.org
  • Vim::Tag - Generate perl tags for vim - metacpan.org
• Emacs
  • GitHub - HaraldJoerg/cperl-mode: Bring new language features and popular DSLs into cperl-mode
  • Emacs::PDE - Perl Development Environment in emacs - metacpan.org
    • EmacsWiki: Perl Develop Environment
  • Sepia - Simple Emacs-Perl Interface - metacpan.org
  • GitHub - syohex/emacs-devel-cover: Highlight C0 lines with Devel::Cover
• IntelliJ
  • GitHub - Camelcade/Perl5-IDEA: Perl5 plugins for IntelliJ IDEA
    • Perl - IntelliJ IDEs Plugin - Marketplace
• Eclipse
  • EPIC - Eclipse Perl Integration
• Netbeans
  • GitHub - sudeephazra/perl-on-netbeans: This plugin adds support for Perl 5 to NetBeans
    • Sudeep Hazra - Perl On NetBeans - YouTube
  • nbPerl download - SourceForge.net
• Padre
  • Padre, the Perl IDE
• Open Perl
  • Open Perl IDE download - SourceForge.net
• Komodo
  • Komodo IDE By ActiveState - One IDE for All Your Languages
• OptiPerl
  • GitHub - hakakou/optiperl: OptiPerl is a fully integrated developing environment for creating, testing, debugging and running perl scripts
  • OptiPerl - Uptiv